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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by mxuribe »

kermire wrote: post #38
gquiniou wrote: post #33

A nice feature would be import and export from/to Curl commands. When collaborating with clients or even colleagues it's easier to send curl commands.

Definitely something I'll be implementing soon. Importing and exporting curl commands is a good feature to have. Thanks for the feature suggestion.

I wonder if the chromium project has these functions all ready for you to grab from their dev tools?

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by user3939382 »

datavirtue wrote: post #50
user3939382 wrote: post #36

My biggest gripe with Postman is the horrible theming. Except for light and dark, 0 control over the appearance of this app that I have to look at for hours almost every day.

You don't have to put up with postman. There are better alternatives.

> You don't have to put up with postman

Unless you work on a team that's standardized around it as a collaboration tool.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by iimblack »

kermire wrote: post #69
jhoelzel wrote: post #55

I like it but please dont make me right click to do something! please add a little plus or something like it. Otherwise great work! needs a little disclaimer though that you will not save any of my requests =)

Thank you. Will look into preventing the right click requirement and provide an alternative for that. It should be saving your requests automatically. Maybe your browser is blocking IndexedDB somehow? That's what's used by the application to store the data locally. Also do make sure you're not in incognito mode, as changes will be lost once you're out of it.

Firefox private mode completely blocks indexeddb.

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by flatiron »

genghizkhan wrote: post #136
ducktective wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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

> curl is not installed by default in many distros Which ones (apart from alpine)? I thought curl was pretty much as basic as it got and is always there.

I just installed Ubuntu using deboostrap and it did not come with curl (to my surprise)

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by kcartlidge »

> Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest.

Looks good. I use Postman daily and it sucks, so always open to alternatives.

I don't recall what it looked like the last time you posted, but I wonder if part of the low interest is because upon arrival it doesn't instantly jump out to the visitor that this is something you can host/run locally. It's very easy to miss the Github links top right. And if you don't realise that, then what you see is a third party website expecting you to send your development requests through their UI, which is off-putting.

As I say, I don't remember, but that may be why I skipped it last time. I'll pay more attention this time!

(Edit: split paragraphs for clarity)

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Post by [deleted] »

progre wrote: post #75

I'm just now migrating my postman collections to .rest text files and the REST-client plugin for vscode (that name is both good and bad at the same time btw, it like marketing a new car and naming it "Car"). Grantet it does not do everything Postman does but I'm pretty happy so far. Environment variables and secrets stays in a workspace settings.json and the .rest files can be version controlled and shared. Always be…

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