Thank 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.
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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)
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-...
I think it's just the nature of how I use APIs. I do discovery with curl then just write a golang CLI for long term use. I'd probably save a lot of boilerplate using something like http-files though.
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#173>Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests. You can use git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections. Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever.
AMEN! I've been annoyed by Insomnia and Postman for a good while for these reasons exactly. My latest client of use, Thunder client VS Code extension also started pulling the same shit, and I'm cutting it off too.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#174I 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)
#175Thank 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.
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No, Bruno offers paid but with Postman it burns: they removed your personal data after upgrade and you can't store your own data locally.
I will likely buy Bruno because it is a one time fee and I control my data. It should work forever after that.
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#176Thank 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.
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>How dare they try and run a business and get paid for their work
They can run whatever they want. I, and the parent, wont be using it.
Bruno has a paid option too, btw, and I'm fine with that. I'd be fine even if it was the only option. Login and extra BS features to tie me in? No, thanks.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#177> Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests. You can use git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections. Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. AMEN! I've been annoyed by Insomnia and Postman for a good while for these reasons exactly. M…
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#178Thank 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.
While I do hate Postman because its overcomplicated in everything. But attitude like yours has shifted people and money away from developer tools. Instead of all the possible tools we could have from many developers, we are now totally dependent on big tech to sponsor it, like VSCode etc. And over time it would move in direction that will promote another service from the same company like copilot and vscode.
Developer Tool Developers are hurting themselves. I think it is reasonable to not want to have to log in to every darn thing you use on the internet. Especially developer tools.
Someone needs to invent a hat that developers have to wear: when the developer starts to write signup, login or authentication code, a hand pokes out of the hat and slaps him.
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I do hate Postman because its overcomplicated in everything. But attitude like yours has shifted people and money away from developer tools. Instead of all the possible tools we could have from many developers, we are now totally dependent on big tech to sponsor it, like VSCode etc. And over time it would move in direction that will promote another service from the same company like copilot and vscode.
Developer Tool Developers are hurting themselves. I think it is reasonable to not want to have to log in to every darn thing you use on the internet. Especially developer tools. Someone needs to invent a hat that developers have to wear: when the developer starts to write signup, login or authentication code, a hand pokes out of the hat and slaps him.
Default-on telemetry as well. I'm reminded of Balena Etcher phoning home with the names of ISO files you flash, which leaks the IPs etc. of which users are creating Tor/Tails bootable USBs: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/16381#not...
Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
#180Thank 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.
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Baloney. As other's have mentioned, Bruno also has a paid option.
Postman's problem is they took hundreds of millions of funding that somehow thinks an API request tool is worth $5.6 billion (though I'm sure that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down from the 2021 ZIRP frenzy). So now Postman has long since gone down the full enshittification path with a totally unnecessarily complicated UI and authentication and cloud features that hardly anybody really wants.
I like Bruno simply because I believe their approach is much better: simpler UI and, importantly, as their demo video points out, collections of API requests can be saved in an easy-to-understand format in git. Much better than some proprietary cloud storage.