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Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by piokoch » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

lovedaddy wrote: post #10

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.

The latest updates from httpie have an insomnia type rest client workspace thing. https://httpie.io/product

This is some invite only software, am I missing something? I couldn't use it right away, I was asked to join waitlist.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by soraminazuki » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

On a related note, I'm wondering if there are plans for updating httpbin. The httpbin repo was transferred to the Postman organization somewhere between January and March of 2019 [1]. The last commit was made on November 2018 [2] and it's currently suffering from outdated Python dependencies.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190322170311/https://github.co...

[2]: https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by johncena33 » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

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…

It's also the demogrpahic of the internet. Internet is abundant with, for a lack of a better term, toxic people. Which makes sense if you think about it, since on the internet you can be toxic with very very little to no consequences. Lot of toxicity comes out in the form of criticisms. On a moderated forum like HN it's not easy to criticize a person, so you go for the next good thing - a company or a new area.

If one just reads the HN solely, they might get the impression that Google is the most evil company on the earth since the beginning of time. In reality very few people actually have that kind of view. It's mostly toxic people need to find a target to unleash their toxicity; on HN it's Google.

Since you are young, I'd advise to be very cautious on internet. Never take internet crowd as a proper sample of real world population. It's very skewed and almost always not in a good way.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by lucideer » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

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 used to like Postman until it locked me out of my locally-stored data while I was offline (testing my own applications on localhost) for an extended period , I found out that it phones home constantly (cannot be disabled) & locks you out if it fails. The developers stating they had no intention of changing this for "security reasons" before closing the Github issue sealed the deal.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by skrebbel » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #40

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.

Incidently, httpie is getting a GUI: https://github.com/httpie/desktop

And VC funding!

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by serverholic » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:40 PM UTC

How about better graphql support? Insomnia is kicking postman's but in that department and my team had to switch.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by evanmoran » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:42 PM UTC

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.)

Looks great! How’s the reception so far? Many of our APIs have some streaming, is that something on your roadmap?

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by lugu » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:42 PM UTC

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…

There might be two types of features: those designed for the existing user base, and those to extend this user base.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by lnenad » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

hbn wrote: post #13

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.

Completely agree, I've started making my own open source lightweight version

https://github.com/lnenad/probster

It's golang + gtk so it uses 30MB of ram. I've made a website https://probster.com with some screenshots. I plan on making a barebones version available for download soon for all platforms, just gotta get around to it because I don't have a lot of experience with delivering desktop apps.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by pm90 » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

This (grpc support) might change my mind but I’ve never found the need for a tool like postman for rest apis. curl + shell history search has worked pretty well. It’s so easy to share a snippet; to tweak it so you can make it as verbose as you need. It’s easy to run locally or on a remote machine.I guess if Postman has an easy way of sharing that might be great but it’s the stability of curl that makes it super appealing.