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Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#5
I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now

> Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#6
post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

Try Insomnia or Hoppskotch.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#7
postman is a software that I simultaneously love and hate

on one hand, it has all these really great features. I would be half as productive without it.

on the other hand, it’s so, so annoying with all these updates and cloud features and something or other all the time :(

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#8
post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

It is also buggy, resource hog and instable. I use it on Ubuntu and os x m1 and I often have to kill it because it stops accepting any inputs or it ate all memory (and cpu after that when you click anything). Hoppscotsch and others are better now: I guess they wanted way too much too fast (I did not check but I suppose they got VC money?)?

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#9
post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

Try Insomnia or Hoppskotch.

How is Insomnia any different? It's basically an OSS carbon copy of Postman.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

#10
post #5

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

The latest updates from httpie have an insomnia type rest client workspace thing.

https://httpie.io/product

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