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Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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I have a Paw license and recently I started using Insomnia instead: https://insomnia.rest/ I find Paw's project management very annoying. It assumes that I am working on some project and wants me to organise everything like that. Fine, lets do it, so where are my projects? They are hidden in some dropdown that you can have fun finding. Insomnia is much cleaner and more to the point.

I'm using Insomnia too, just because its license.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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Any info on graphql support? I know postman and others don’t, would be nice to have a single tool.

Insomnia supports GraphQL pretty well

Thanks for mentioning this. It's awesome to hear that this feature is getting real use!

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#53

I have a Paw license and recently I started using Insomnia instead: https://insomnia.rest/ I find Paw's project management very annoying. It assumes that I am working on some project and wants me to organise everything like that. Fine, lets do it, so where are my projects? They are hidden in some dropdown that you can have fun finding. Insomnia is much cleaner and more to the point.

Thanks for mentioning this! Simplicity and ease of use is exactly why I started building Insomnia. Awesome to see that others agree.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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Can someone please describe their workflow using tools like this? Right now I use Charles Proxy for everything and am not sure how this would make it better. Does someone (another team member) share you their API schema? How do you handle headers/auth that needs to be set up all the time?

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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Anyone have any experience with how this compares to Postman?

In short, I'm a big fan of PAW after spending some time with both.

Check out this thread from one of the other times it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190047

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#56

I have a Paw license and recently I started using Insomnia instead: https://insomnia.rest/ I find Paw's project management very annoying. It assumes that I am working on some project and wants me to organise everything like that. Fine, lets do it, so where are my projects? They are hidden in some dropdown that you can have fun finding. Insomnia is much cleaner and more to the point.

I was on the verge of buying a licence for Paw a couple of months ago, but discovered Insomnia, and been using that instead. (Formerly used Postman before that). To me, the functionality of Paw and Insomnia seem very similar, so the $50 licence price deterred me from purchasing Paw. If Paw was closer to the $20 mark, I might have still bought it to have in my arsenal of tools 'just in case'. My rationale is that if t…

No need for a license for https://rest.secapps.com and we have all features of Paw.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

#57

I have a Paw license and recently I started using Insomnia instead: https://insomnia.rest/ I find Paw's project management very annoying. It assumes that I am working on some project and wants me to organise everything like that. Fine, lets do it, so where are my projects? They are hidden in some dropdown that you can have fun finding. Insomnia is much cleaner and more to the point.

I'm a longtime Paw user, but I'll be checking this out myself!

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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For quick-and-dirty things I use cURL or httpie otherwise I use Paw (and have for about a year now). I had previously used Postman before that, but even then Paw was a better app—native app so it looked better + felt faster, nicer collections, better default shortcuts, etc. Paw has a lot of power behind it, otherwise if you're just doing basic POST requests, stick to httpie. The code generators and extensions are nic…

You can copy a browser request as a cURL command. Both Firefox and Chrome via developer tools.

Just a cool feature I learnt recently.

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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For quick-and-dirty things I use cURL or httpie otherwise I use Paw (and have for about a year now). I had previously used Postman before that, but even then Paw was a better app—native app so it looked better + felt faster, nicer collections, better default shortcuts, etc. Paw has a lot of power behind it, otherwise if you're just doing basic POST requests, stick to httpie. The code generators and extensions are nic…

Just to play devil's advocate: I do all of that in Postman, which for the last year or so has also been a native app - at least, in the sense of being non-Chrome, it's not using macOS UI elements. I think different environments is a recent feature too. It's free, and cross-platform. And the team sharing capabilities are cheaper than Paw's. It's odd that Paw seems to bill its single platform nature as a feature. There…

Isn't Postman's "native" app electron-based instead of being the chrome packaged app from before? So they basically went from Chrome to Chromium and started calling it native...

Re: Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to play devil's advocate: I do all of that in Postman, which for the last year or so has also been a native app - at least, in the sense of being non-Chrome, it's not using macOS UI elements. I think different environments is a recent feature too. It's free, and cross-platform. And the team sharing capabilities are cheaper than Paw's. It's odd that Paw seems to bill its single platform nature as a feature. There…

Isn't Postman's "native" app electron-based instead of being the chrome packaged app from before? So they basically went from Chrome to Chromium and started calling it native...

It's not as bad as that, it went from 'You need Chrome so you can install this app' to 'Download this standalone package'.

Postman may or may not call it native, I did here, and then tried to clarify what I meant since I realised it's nativeness depended on context.

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