any Insomnia alternatives which are not Postman? I need rest and graphql support.
Insomnia is getting worse and worse and I'm worried it won't be better.
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[–] Daveofthenorth@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Check out Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/

I switched to it from insomnia and it has been pretty decent once I got used to it

[–] xsevy@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago

@Daveofthenorth thanks. I'll check this soon.

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Insomnia's source code is FOSS, there are forks since the company's recent changes.

[–] xsevy@mastodon.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@comfydecal any examples?

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

Engine search "insomnium" (like codium for vscode), there are multiple. This is the first result.

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

[–] immortalgeek@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have recently tried Bruno, but it lacked some basic UI features I use regularly, like file picker UI for uploading a multipart file.

I also gave Recipe Ul a look, but I did not see an option to switch environments. (Haven't installed it and tried it, just went through the docs)

So I settled on Hopsscotch. Though their desktop UI is still in alpha, it looked good to me.

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with postman?

[–] xsevy@mastodon.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@ShrimpsIsBugs it's not opensource

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Fair.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

You can just use normal .http files. There’s support in all jetbrains products, vs code, visual studio, jetbrains even wrote a cli tool for it. https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/07/04/http-client-tools-everywhere/

https://kenslearningcurve.com/tutorials/test-an-api-by-using-http-files-in-vscode/

The nice thing about http files is that you’re never going to be locked into some company’s standard. They’re literally all just plain text files.

MS is trying to create a standard. https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/29431

There’s also https://httpyac.github.io though I’ve never heard of anyone using it.

Anyway, moving away from these proprietary separate HTTP/REST call products is a good thing. Postman really led the enshittification in this area.

[–] xsevy@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago

@python @golang @opensource @Daveofthenorth
@immortalgeek thanks for your help, however as @comfydecal recommended I decided to get some Insomnia fork https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is the problem with insomnia?

[–] xsevy@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago

@somegeek multiple bugs