Ask HN: Nice alternatives to Postman?

9 points | by sebiw a year ago ago

16 comments

  • bencelaszlo a year ago ago

    Bruno is a FOSS alternative, it is an Electron app, but widely used already: https://www.usebruno.com/downloads

    What I like about it that requests are defined in a simple markup language called "Bru" and stores as simple text files, you can easily throw them around.

    • JLCarveth a year ago ago

      I just started using this recently, I love it!

    • sebiw a year ago ago

      Thanks!

  • cruano a year ago ago

    This completely depends on your use-case, but I've personally found that the edit and re-send [1] features of Firefox are enough for my purposes most of the time.

    [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/networ...

  • tommymanstrom a year ago ago

    Currently using Insomnium [1], a fork of Insomnia before the login demands. Most likely found it here at HN [2] and decided to try it out.

    [1] https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

    [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

  • erwagasore a year ago ago

    HTTPie is a good alternative. Check it out here https://httpie.io/

    • sebiw a year ago ago

      Will try it out. Thanks!

  • 11001100 a year ago ago

    Insomnia is a Postman alternative: https://insomnia.rest/

  • noop_joe a year ago ago

    I like restclient. There's no UI, just .http files with a simple format for describing requests. there's a version for emacs and vscode that are mostly interoperable.

  • speedylight a year ago ago

    I would say use insomnia but it’s going down the same path as postman. There are some nice VSCode extensions that integrate a REST client directly into the editor.

    • briHass a year ago ago

      Same. I use https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

      If you need a little more control or automation, it can also generate scripts for cURL or PowerShell (and others) directly from the request. Organization is on you, but I prefer that over a heavyweight and opinionated tool like Postman.

      The .http files can also be used in Jetbrains Rider (probably their other suites as well)

  • skydhash a year ago ago

    Enjoy it while it lasts: https://paw.cloud/. Really good.

  • jjice a year ago ago

    Not native, but Thunder Client is a VS Code extension that I've found pretty handy.

  • rozenmd a year ago ago

    Yaak, made by the original maker of Insomnia.

  • rvz a year ago ago

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  • high_pathetic a year ago ago

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