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Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder

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Don't CORS restrictions basically render this whole tool useless?

I use Postman a fair bit, and looking through my history it's mostly playing with 3rd party APIs to see what format they return and how they respond to query params and such. So it works for that purpose, since those generally won't have CORS restrictions.

It probably won't work for testing of your own API endpoints for, say, a SPA, though, which is likely to have CORS. But for local testing where I control the backend, I mostly just rely on printing responses to the terminal anyway.

Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder

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I'm just a user of this, but if anyone is looking for a truly native MacOS version of Postman, you should take a look at Paw. https://paw.cloud/

I never knew this existed, thanks! After looking for a Postman alternative (Due to Electron) I took a look at Paw and I am really enjoying using it on my MacBook and replaced Postman with Paw.

Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder

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If performances are a concern I would build it in QT, not Javascript. Just opening Firefox eats like 400 MB ram on my PC !

It makes me question, is there any way to run a slim browser for these kind of tools? It would be cool to have a tool that would: * run a very slim browser tab for each tool * I cloud load/save sites into tools (So I can really run them offline) * Could have a shortcut or a starting page that's just links to my saved tools

Considering this tool uses JavaScript rendering, I'm not sure you could get away with a "slim browser". You're going to need all the bloat that makes CSR work.
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