Nice work! I wasn't familiar with insomnia so when I read your first line there I read it as "I love not being able to sleep because it gave me time to code this project..."
Haha thanks. Didn't think it could be interpreted like that :D
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#112Here's an alternative I recently came across. In Firefox on the network tab of the dev console, right click on an XHR request. You'll have two relevant options: "Resend" and "Edit and Resend". Edit and Resend doesn't give you all the features of Postman, but it is useful and a lot easier. I have spent a lot of time in Postman just putting in all the headers and POST body to set up the API call. With this method in Fi…
I am very happy to save you a lot of time for copy&pasting requests to Postman. Since Postman can import curl commands, just right-click on a command in Firefox, Copy as -> Curl, click on the Import in Postman, import as text, paste curl, mission accomplished. Hope it helps.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#113Here's an alternative I recently came across. In Firefox on the network tab of the dev console, right click on an XHR request. You'll have two relevant options: "Resend" and "Edit and Resend". Edit and Resend doesn't give you all the features of Postman, but it is useful and a lot easier. I have spent a lot of time in Postman just putting in all the headers and POST body to set up the API call. With this method in Fi…
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#114I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.
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#115For anyone looking for an aesthetic Postman alternative, I can't recommend https://insomnia.rest/ enough
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#116Nothing to take away from all of this, but please learn cURL. Postman and all its alternatives are great and all, but they also hide a lot of things that will hinder your debugging skills. As an alternative try httpie. Not because CLIs are cool but because you can see the headers and the raw response more easily. Developers need to understand what content type is, what response headers are, how to limit them, how to…
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#117I would recommend VS Code with RestClient extension.
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#118There was previously Postwoman which I believe is now hoppscotch https://github.com/f0rb1d/postwoman https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
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#119Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier ( https://paw.cloud )
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#120Why should I use this over https://hoppscotch.io ?
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