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Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by danuker »

paozac wrote: 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.

> when it was a simple browser extension

You can download packages of extensions. I would recommend that you do it for the ones you love.

But the browser APIs are constantly changing, forcing you to keep running in order not to fall behind.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by hbn »

Postman is so incredibly bloated and slow these days. All I want is a REST client, but it feels like every time I want to perform a basic task now, I have to dig past all of their confusing platform and cloud stuff that I have no interest in.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by adhoc_slime »

I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc. To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question is is how do you actually expect products to just stop active feature development? Or would you rather a second standalone app to install?

I'm a relatively young developer so I'm hoping to gain some insight from this mindset I see all too often.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by sbmthakur »

paozac wrote: 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.

> I basically used it as a curl gui.

I just use Browser's Network tab for that nowadays. CORS can be a trouble at times, but that can be avoided with a few tweaks.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by tluyben2 »

adhoc_slime wrote: post #14

I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc. To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question…

I definitely rather would have had a second (and third and further,...) app. But I guess most people do not.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by chrisdhal »

adhoc_slime wrote: post #14

I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc. To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question…

I agree with you. It seems funny to me in a lot of these threads about new features that people complain about them, then when somebody recommends program "XYZ" they complain "but there hasn't been any updates in 2 years, it's obviously not good or not used and I don't want to get stuck using an obsolete package".

Can't win I guess.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by dewey »

sbmthakur wrote: post #15
paozac wrote: 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.

> I basically used it as a curl gui. I just use Browser's Network tab for that nowadays. CORS can be a trouble at times, but that can be avoided with a few tweaks.

I think the killer feature for these separate tools is usually that you can easily do a right click -> "copy as curl" in the network inspector, then import it in Postman/Paw and then tweak parameters / add headers there. This is not really possible in the browser network tools.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by mythz »

We've moved on from Postman for our own APIs and are now including an integrated API Explorer into each new .NET v6+ App https://docs.servicestack.net/api-explorer

As a consequence of our API Design we're also able to reuse our existing Typed APIs in gRPC services: https://docs.servicestack.net/grpc

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by dewey »

thcyron wrote: post #12
sorahn wrote: post #3

I’ve been using BloomRPC for the past year, but it’s definitely got a few rough spots. Very excited to try this out.

If you’re on the Mac, you might want to give Grip ( https://gripgrpc.dev ) a chance. It’s a native client for gRPC. (Disclosure: I’m the author.)

Very nice, thanks for sharing. I'll take a look.
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