Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
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#12Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#13Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
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#14Fortunately I regularly export the collections that still matter.
Now I am no longer a Postman user, as due to NDA's we aren't allowed to store project data on them.
Paying was never an issue, not having a secure alternative is what killed it for us.
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#15Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
in larger teams, I did see groups of people collaboratively creating various urls/scripts/tests, and putting some docs with them, to help with the dev and testing (mostly qa/test folks). that was, imo, a relatively legitimate use for a full tool like postman.
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#16Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#17It's also a good reminder for everyone to back up everything!
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#19Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.ht...
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#20As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.