Am I crazy for using curl and editing the shell cmdline with vim when I need to work with lots of headers?
No, but unless portability is a concern or you're massively familiar with curl, you might want to consider xh. It's much more intuitive.
Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
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Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Postman is also open source lol. Unless its donation driven without funding its all going to be the same.
Can't someone just locally fork one of these apps and use it forever without updating it? What's actually different about manually poking APIs from one week to the next?
Well even curl has a high severity CVE pending announcement, updates aren't always bad!
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disappointing that there isn't a standalone program like Postman. I don't want to install an extension in my browser to handle CORS.
What's the issue with an extension?
I don't particularly enjoy a VC-fueled project having ability to intercept all my browser traffic to handle CORS.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#74I been using 'Advanced Rest Client' (ARC) https://install.advancedrestclient.com/
No accounts required, offline, open source, A little bloated using electron but its multiplatform and a desktop client.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#75There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data. Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Syntax looks like: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name":…
I use it too - it’s excellent, I’d think most developers don’t need more than this.
Yep, me to. Since it's just textfiles I can have them checked into git and share them. Credentials stays in a separate environments file (not checked in). I'm pretty happy with this setup.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#76There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data. Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Syntax looks like: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name":…
I use this one for tests on microservices endpoints. Very good at least for my use case. I recommend it.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#77another alternative: RapidAPI https://rapidapi.com/ it's a good api client, and it's free for individual use and they have some sort of nifty marketplace integration catalog...thing with remote API servers that makes it easy to find and try API services that offer data / functionality you want to connect to.
It was great before it got acquired, (and was called Paw back then) now the product development has virtually stopped.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#78So they quickly followed what their competitor Insomnia did recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326
Insomnia doesn’t wipe out your stuff if you don’t create an account though.
Postman doesn't either, but it doesn't tell you where the backup is. Same deceptive shite.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#79We’re building an open-source Postman alternative. 1.6m+ users, 100k+ monthly active users, 55k+ GitHub stars. Web app: https://hoppscotch.io GitHub: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
But you raised VC funding right? Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory. Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react. Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figure…
I wish tech product managers could get it through their skulls: creating and maintaining yet-another-account for yet-another-app is high friction and undesirable. If you're going to give me an ultimatum where I need to either create an account or stop using the app. 99% of the time I'm just going to stop using your app.
Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
#80another alternative: RapidAPI https://rapidapi.com/ it's a good api client, and it's free for individual use and they have some sort of nifty marketplace integration catalog...thing with remote API servers that makes it easy to find and try API services that offer data / functionality you want to connect to.
I’ve used that for years, from back when it was the paid Paw app, and I’ve been happy with it.