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Postman's UI is cluttered
I don't disagree. I've just been using it for so long (8 or 9 years now I think) and it's so ingrained in my workflows that I haven't bothered to re-evaluate it in ages. This is probably the kick in the butt I needed.
Here'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…
Cool project! A true, open source alternative to Postman will be valuable. It seems like you’ve got the major elements in place. Unsolicited UX notes… I read Hacker News on mobile, so tried the app on mobile and ran into some challenges. In order to save space, eliminate the right click, and work on mobile please consider changing: You can right click here to create a new request or a new folder To the following (ill…
Thank you. The UI is not currently built with mobile in mind. I have been thinking of implementing a responsive layout but haven't had the time to do it. I did not know about the GitHub star login thing. Will try to rectify it when I can. Thanks for all your UX notes.
> - Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary Couldn't understand why this isn't the default. curl is always available and slapping a display layer on top of something like curl shouldn't need to talk to some backend server.
>curl is always available curl is not installed by default in many distros Also, I don't think it's possible to call external processes from within the browser sandbox
Which ones (apart from alpine)? I thought curl was pretty much as basic as it got and is always there.
> - Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary Couldn't understand why this isn't the default. curl is always available and slapping a display layer on top of something like curl shouldn't need to talk to some backend server.
>curl is always available curl is not installed by default in many distros Also, I don't think it's possible to call external processes from within the browser sandbox
If curl can run locally, so should all of these tools.