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Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety
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Re: Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety
#22Excited to try this out. A couple things I just noticed: - the buttons on the download page aren't readable in Orion browser (basically Safari) on desktop. The buttons appear empty as the contents are rendered several rems below, overlapping the text "See more options on Github". Disabling the style `.btn { flex-wrap: wrap; }` in the inspector fixes it for me, but I see animations and transitions attached to this cla…
Why would you post this here instead of the github page?
Re: Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety
#23Excited to try this out. A couple things I just noticed: - the buttons on the download page aren't readable in Orion browser (basically Safari) on desktop. The buttons appear empty as the contents are rendered several rems below, overlapping the text "See more options on Github". Disabling the style `.btn { flex-wrap: wrap; }` in the inspector fixes it for me, but I see animations and transitions attached to this cla…
Why would you post this here instead of the github page?
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Re: Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety
#24I haven’t downloaded RecipeUI yet to give it a try, but plan to. Does RecipeUI support importing OpenAPI specs in order to enforce type safety? I personally don’t like watching demos and prefer to read documentation. This information wasn’t available from the site.
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#26Have you seen hoppscotch[1]? They have been my postman alternative for quite some time now. [1] https://hoppscotch.io
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#27Another alternative I've been meaning to try out: https://restfox.dev/
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Re: Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety
#28I haven’t downloaded RecipeUI yet to give it a try, but plan to. Does RecipeUI support importing OpenAPI specs in order to enforce type safety? I personally don’t like watching demos and prefer to read documentation. This information wasn’t available from the site.
Looking forward to your feedback when you use it! Currently we validate with mappings from TypeScript to JSONSchema. OpenAPI is definitely a gold standard, but I think JSONSchema is fairly strong as well.
We're still considering better typing solutions like ZOD or OpenAPI wrappers, but our focus right now is core feature parity as an API tool.
We'll do a better job with written documentation! We forgot that video isn't always a medium that people prefer.
Re: Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety
#29I haven’t downloaded RecipeUI yet to give it a try, but plan to. Does RecipeUI support importing OpenAPI specs in order to enforce type safety? I personally don’t like watching demos and prefer to read documentation. This information wasn’t available from the site.
Looking forward to your feedback when you use it! Currently we validate with mappings from TypeScript to JSONSchema. OpenAPI is definitely a gold standard, but I think JSONSchema is fairly strong as well. We're still considering better typing solutions like ZOD or OpenAPI wrappers, but our focus right now is core feature parity as an API tool. We'll do a better job with written documentation! We forgot that video isn…
> "We forgot that video isn't always a medium that people prefer."
I've recently encountered this same apparent strong preference for video at work (where I lead a platform team whose deliverables support dozens of other teams) and while I can accept it (and even embraced it as we create howto videos), it remains very strange to me. When engaging with new tech I always want to see code and well-organized prose, but if there's a video I usually can't be bothered -- because the quality and signal-to-noise ratio are so often terrible, and it's got terrible ergonomics for highlighting or sharing key takeaways.
Good reminder that creators often aren't representative of their target demographic, or even well-aligned with their preferences.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking forward to your feedback when you use it! Currently we validate with mappings from TypeScript to JSONSchema. OpenAPI is definitely a gold standard, but I think JSONSchema is fairly strong as well. We're still considering better typing solutions like ZOD or OpenAPI wrappers, but our focus right now is core feature parity as an API tool. We'll do a better job with written documentation! We forgot that video isn…
> "We forgot that video isn't always a medium that people prefer." I've recently encountered this same apparent strong preference for video at work (where I lead a platform team whose deliverables support dozens of other teams) and while I can accept it (and even embraced it as we create howto videos), it remains very strange to me. When engaging with new tech I always want to see code and well-organized prose, but i…
For people reading this, just remember that people who prefer videos over prose aren't hanging out in a text-only forum like this. There's some self-selection happening here.
You should not automatically assume that most people prefer text over video!