Be careful with Postman. It seems they upload all your secrets to their servers. We stopped to use it a time ago. I don't know if they changed in this regard.
Does anyone have a source for this? I need to present this to our team if it's true.
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#52I 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.
Moved from Postman to Insomnia too. Postman was taking too much time to start and was very unresponsive compared to Insomnia, on my Work Laptop.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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#54My 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 ac…
This is what I have been working on: https://hit.yolo42.com/.
Early days but would love some feedback if you get a chance to try it out.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#55I 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 =)
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#56My 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.
Can you chain requests together? Like if a request requires auth it will invoke login then take the token for use in the next request.
Well... that's called programming, no? :)
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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#58The offline part is critical for me. The only other thing I would prefer is an application that doesn't use Electron.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#59My 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.
I have been working on a CLI first workflow that doesn’t require IntelliJ: https://hit.yolo42.com/.
I spend my days in the terminal and like curl and httpie for most parts. Hit is to fill in the gaps rather than redo the whole experience of sending HTTP requests.
I’ve a very early prototype. If you get a chance to try it out, please do and share your feedback.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#60I 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.
Same here, moved from postman to insomnia, now mostly using the rest plugin for visual studio code. Prefer using regular text files.
I similarly use restclient.el on Emacs and love it.
For those unfamiliar with these plugins, they allow you to simply write text files looking like:
GET https://example.com/posts/5
Accept: application/json
POST https://example.com/posts
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer abc
{"title": "foo", "body": "bar"}