I don’t understand, what is it, what does it do?
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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#32I 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.
One thing I love from Insomnia.rest is the ability to import CURL commands, including an entire list of newline-delimited CURL commands from the clipboard. This makes it easier to modify XHR's you pulled from your browser via a right click -> "copy all as cURL (bash)".
Yup. Use this all the time, either when I want to automate something on an undocumented API, or if I want to do some basic security testing on API's at work.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#33A 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.
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#34I don’t understand, what is it, what does it do?
Ok, it’s a tool to test rest api.
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#35My favorite testing HTTP Client is still just the IntelliJ built-in, pure text. You know exactly what you send without having to navigate menus and whatnot. In the end, 99% of HTTP requests are just that, text.
This is what I wish all http clients could adopt.
Use plain text files (IntelliJ already introduced .http files, which work great) Sadly it will never work because that would break 90% of the incentives to pay, which his having a sync system. Because then I could simply commit my http requests and git would be my sync server.
Personally I don't like the IntelliJ Client, the UI is kind of ugly and requires a lot of actions each time I want to send and review a response. Insomnia is way better in that regard.
Good context might me my issue comment on Hoppscotch: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870#issuecom...
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#36My 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.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#37Cool 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.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#38A 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.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#39I 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.
One thing I love from Insomnia.rest is the ability to import CURL commands, including an entire list of newline-delimited CURL commands from the clipboard. This makes it easier to modify XHR's you pulled from your browser via a right click -> "copy all as cURL (bash)".
Postman can do this as well. I've been using this a bunch recently due to some project limitations and it has made life so much easier.
ETA: I just tried the functionality on Insomnia and I have to admit the UX is nicer. Just paste into the URL bar. Whereas with Postman it's CMD+O, Click on "Raw Text", click in textarea, paste, press import. Insomnia looks to have added OpenAPI support too (it was missing it last time I played with it) so maybe it's time to re-evaluate Insomnia
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#40Nice. If you want to implement another feature: see the error response. My server returned 428, but I couldn't see the contents nor header, only a generic "preview".
That's very odd. Will look into this.