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Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
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Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#52I would love to see more UI done in this style. That is to say treating your business logic as an API and then exposing it publicly to clients on different platforms.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#53I am currently looking for a solution to run automated tests on a sql website generator I am working on ( https://sql.ophir.dev )
I wanted to use hurl (https://hurl.dev/), but Bruno's UI seems to be useful while developing the tests... Has someone tried both ? Which is better for automated testing, including when the response type is html and not json?
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
It makes no sense in the first place for such a tool to even need a login functionality and cloud saves... What's really needed to store information about a few http requests? Maybe a few kilobytes. I never understood it and I particularly don't understand how any company could fall for that. If they instead invested in teaching their engineers how to use curl even that would have paid off more.
The benefit of using postman is that you can open the app, see your (shared) collections, easily change the params and hit send. Can curl be used like that?
Of course you can. You can use any tool that lets you write down commands, run it, and edit it. Shells, editors, interactive notebooks like Org Mode, etc. The beauty is that it's just text that you can copy and paste between your tool of choice. You're not locked in to a single tool.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#55Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
The irony that I switched to Insomnia after Postman started demanding a login... and now I've been actively looking for alternatives (Bruno being on the list) now that Insomnia has done the same thing.
Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in.
Especially once a VC gets into the fold.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#56MQTT is in the pipeline? That’s gonna be a huge deal for those of us working on IoT projects that also use REST for service data. I’ll be watching this for sure.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#57Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
Great point. I almost wrote, "why use a bru file when more established scripting languages and libs exist for this". But it seems the point here is to bridge the gap between some devs (maybe more junior) on a team that prefer a GUI while also providing a more vc/cli driven experience for the rest of the team.
Not to mention, that bru syntax looks really nice.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#58Can this read OpenAPI (Swagger) specs and generate calls based on the service description?
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#59Can someone explain what Postman or Bruno is for? I know it's something for interacting with apis but why would i use it. I interact with apis a lot with curl or wrapper in my languages but never really needed something else?
One more thing I don't see mentioned is that you can share requests with your team easily, so if you worked on an API integration, you can document it, share it with your team, and when the next time someone else needs to fix something, they can find something that worked at some point and has all the required fields.
Of course you could also just check in to version control these requests as curl commands, so if your team has the technical knowhow, that's about almost the same.
Or even better, you write some tests in your language to make these requests, then you have an integration test, too.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#60Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
I did something similar as well. But instead curling from files I've been using http-files.
Depending on which project I'm working on (and customer), I'll be using different tools to run em.
But to show you an easy example to follow, you could check out this jetbrains cli tool https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/12/http-client-cli-run-...