What alternative to ‘postman’ do you like the most for simply testing a bunch of REST services?
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Insomnia user checking in…
Same, although it has been getting shittier and shittier.
i use insomnia as well
Until I saw the sub I thought this was going to be a question about what to call the postal officer now that we live in a modern society where women are trusted to stuff letterboxes as well as men. Postie is of course the answer to that.
I go with mail carrier. Then again, the man in postman is supposedly from the old English “mann” which just meant person.
curl?
I’ll use REST Client in visual studio code when working on Azure functions etc
I use Thunder client in VSC.
Curl
Same. Just curl. Good enough.
Sometimes swagger UI
Curl. Or if I need to chain stuff together for auth reasons or whatever, sometimes ill just pop into a python virtualenv and use
requestsThis looks very good. Thanks for sharing.
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Same here, absolutely love being able to write HTTP requests like code! With the auto completion I’m 10x faster writing requests than using Postman or Insomnia. You can define multiple requests in one file and execute them like a script. There’s also a templating feature which you can use for different environments.
Hoppscotch.io works a treat
Thunderclient for vscodium
I used to use Paw, but it’s only available on OS X. It’s a shame because it has the single best variable/templating system I’ve ever used. Since I prefer a cross platform and ideally open source solution though I’ve switched to Insomnia. It’s not quite as good as Paw, but I can actually use it on Windows and Linux unlike Paw.
My day job is in OSX so, Paw user checking in. Very nice UI…
https://hurl.dev is pretty sweet.
Curl. Especially as Firefox’ network tab lets me copy every request in curl format. I only use postman for complex POST/PUT/PATCH requests. I’ve used httpie in the past.
SoapUI open source version works pretty well and does not require a logon to save your projects
