What's the difference between Restfox and https://github.com/Kong/insomnia ? Seems both of them are Postman alternative.
An even more mature project is Hoppscotch (47k stars)
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#202There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time): Restfox https://restfox.dev/ bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/ Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/ HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... Hurl https://hurl.dev Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Kreya https://kreya.app Milkman…
So the most popular open-source Postman alternatives seem to be
HoppScotch (47.7k stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
Restfox (405 stars, 2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri, Electron, Next): https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#203There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time): Restfox https://restfox.dev/ bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/ Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/ HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... Hurl https://hurl.dev Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Kreya https://kreya.app Milkman…
So the most popular open-source Postman alternatives seem to be HoppScotch (47.7k stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Restfox (405 stars, 2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri, Electron, Next): https://github.com/usebruno/bruno --- You can find more here: https://alternativeto.net/s…
Thanks for the shoutout.
I am the author of Bruno :)
A unique things that seperates bruno from the rest is that it is a "local first" api client.
The collections get stored as folders and files on your local files system (imagine git repo), thereby allowing the developers to use the version control of their choice.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#204This certainly looks promising, though the only thing I can see its missing that Postman does is allowing the use of domain specific certificate authentication and the use of a user provided certificate chain.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#205Wha's always boggled me about Postman is that it doesn't have autosave. It's 2022, what doesn't have autosaving? So thank you for adding auto-saving, huge improvement on Postman!
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#206There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time): Restfox https://restfox.dev/ bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/ Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/ HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... Hurl https://hurl.dev Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Kreya https://kreya.app Milkman…
I am only an occasional users, but for me the Firefox Plugin "RESTClient" gets the job done:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/restclient
Not sure how this compares to the more sophisticated tools presented here.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#207Paw for mac users, native client.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#208Hoppscotch [1][2] (previously Postwoman) is also a very nice free and open-source Postman alternative. [1]: https://hoppscotch.io/ [2]: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
I also thought about this when reading the title. Would be great to see a comparison between the new tool and postwoman
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#209I switched to "vscode-restclient" about a year ago and never looked back. It has variables, everything is saved as text, and I can commit my request suite to source control for collaboration's sake. https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
The only reason I use Postman still is the Authentication tab has really nice helpers for getting tokens (OAuth 1/2) and signing requests HMAC. It even works with Azure Active Directory.