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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)

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Does anyone know of any good guides to getting the most out of these kind of tools? I’m mostly interested in Postman since that’s what we have to use a work.

I make requests with it, have things organized in collections, and use a variable for JWT handling but that’s as fancy as I’ve gotten and I know these tools have a lot more depth than I’m using.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Bruno is great. I'm in the process of moving my team to it. Cli, gui, human readable files. They are hitting all the right points. And it's open source so I don't care if they close up later down the line. It can always be forked like insomnium. I do admit it is rough around the edges (bugs and a bunch of missing features) but there is a lot of momentum right now and devs are working hard. Not long before postman parity.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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I am using bruno on all my REST projects and the entire team is more than happy. We have bruno file for most endpoints demonstrating basic usage and as soon as something is problematic, someone creates bruno file in the repo and link to it so others can interactively discover what the problem is about. Since its cross platform and doesn't require any kind of on-boarding its joy to use and nobody complained. Previousl…

Care to share any scripts? Automatic token refresh is a feature I am waiting for in Bruno.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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I really like the idea of serializing requests to a Git-friendly text format. But if we want a Git-friendly text format, why not mimic HTTP/1.1 request syntax as much as possible? Maybe with Jekyll-like YAML front matter for metadata that doesn’t fit? So for Get Users.bru instead of the current example of: meta { name: Get Users type: http seq: 1 } get { url: https://reqres.in/api/users body: none } headers { Content…

Intellij (and all the other variations) has something very similar to this called [0]HttpClient. Being able to commit and basically just read the file is very useful. You can also do validation and scripting with it too.

[0]https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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I 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?

Maybe try Step CI (https://stepci.com)

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

#169
I've purchased the golden copy of Bruno, not just because this is the right way to do software, but also because of the Bru DSL and git-based sharing "everything as code" model.

Meanwhile, I often dev on iPad Pro with keyboard and trackpad, and instead of Postman, Insomnia, etc., I've enjoyed HTTPBot:

- HTTPBot for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/httpbot/id1232603544

- HTTPBot for MacOS: https://www.httpbot.io/

HTTPBot even supports postman collections and environments including sync with postman, along with GraphQL, Websockets, and response metrics.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey there, this is Anoop - creator of Bruno. Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them. We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping

Recommend you copy/paste this as its own top-level comment on this article, so it doesn’t get buried.
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