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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by fractalf » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

helloanoop wrote: post #54

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

Awesome! I've spend 30 minutes searching for an alternative, but it's all crap. This looks really good! Simple light weight, we basically just need a simple gui over curl.. Thank you for this

May I ask why .bru? I would really recommend using a standard format. https://xkcd.com/927/ etc..

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by helloanoop » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 9:09 PM UTC

fractalf wrote: post #161

helloanoop wrote: post #54

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

Awesome! I've spend 30 minutes searching for an alternative, but it's all crap. This looks really good! Simple light weight, we basically just need a simple gui over curl.. Thank you for this May I ask why .bru? I would really recommend using a standard format. https://xkcd.com/927/ etc..

checkout this github discussion: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/360

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by malablaster » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 11:26 AM UTC

Taking away my data until I register is really shameful and on principle I won't use this app anymore.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by liyasthomas » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 6:17 PM UTC

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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by CrimsonRain » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 8:34 PM UTC

nsonha wrote: post #31

CrimsonRain wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ignoring everything else, postman UX is worse than anything I've ever used

Postman and Insomnia have almost identical UIs

Yet I can find anything under a second in Insomnia and keep fumbling around on Postman for minutes.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by pseudalopex » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 4:20 PM UTC

helloanoop wrote: post #158

pseudalopex wrote: post #97

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> Fully offline. There is telemetry. And I didn't find opt in or even opt out code. > lightweight Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app.

Another benefit of electron is that it allows the community to quickly contribute and improve the project via PRs In the last 5 days, Bruno received 25 PRs. I've already merged 21 of them and shipped multiple releases.

I didn't ask why you used Electron. I asked you to quantify lightweight. And every release was a chance to respect consent.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by harrytwigg » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 10:41 AM UTC

I wasn't happy with the existing tools a whole ago, so I made my own called APITeam. It's similar to postman or insomnia but supports load testing out of the box

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by jayFellows » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 12:43 AM UTC

Created a GitHub list of alternatives: https://github.com/stars/jaymakes11/lists/insomnia-alternati...

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by andrewdryga » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC

CrimsonRain wrote: post #24

stringtoint wrote: post #15

Curious to know what advantages Insomnia has/had over Postman beyond being MIT licensed. Postman's initial startup time could be a bit faster but other than this I'm not missing much (yet). I used it for years occasionally before finally creating an account not so long to sync my requests across devices. BTW: Jetbrains IDEs like WebStorm also have an integrated HTTP client.

Ignoring everything else, postman UX is worse than anything I've ever used

I see you haven't used Nero Burning ROM.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by _thinx » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 1:35 AM UTC

helloanoop wrote: post #148

_thinx wrote: post #132

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How do you avoid that at Bruno v1.0.0 ? I means Postman playbook > vc funding

Here is how we avoid that in v1.0.0 I have penned down some thoughts: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269 Would love you to hear your thoughts and perspectives.

Just read your idea.

Sometimes, I wish that I am a billionaire, so that I could let people using my software for free, completely. And the key point is, they know that it is free, absolutely. Because I am a billionaire, they know.

So, just keep it up. Anything you wrote is not important than the thing you do. Don't let people sink you in their perspective about the world they saw.

Open-source software needs a ton of efforts, tears, bloods. Above of the passion, you know that it should be pay-off, fair-price at least, for you and your people hard-works.

At the end, plan is just a plan. Just go to have a chance to fix it.

Good luck and best wishes!