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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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Post by ambigious7777 »

JeremyNT wrote: post #349
fifilura wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We used Postman but it got forbidden in our org for that reason, so no more. Can't say I really miss it. I personally prefer just using a jupyter notebook for these kinds of tasks. With a custom tool like this it becomes a dead end with the data. Maybe you want to decode it if it is on a binary format. Or you want to plot some basic stats?

This has always been my approach really. Use curl for basic stuff, use a full featured repl for deeper exploration. I use Ruby but same idea. I never quite saw enough value in tools like postman. Usually either what you are doing is trivial enough for vanilla curl or complex enough to warrant reaching for a general purpose programming language.

I can relate to this. I've tried to use Postman and Insomnia in the past, but the UI is pretty complicated with a lot of domain specific terms.

Instead, I just hacked together a small Python library, called all the APIs from there, and pushed to Git. Everyone on my team understands it, I have 100% control, and no cloud needed.

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Post by darkstar999 »

hk__2 wrote: post #322
pjmlp wrote: post #287

I find interesting on how on a startup related forum, anything related with not paying is always celebrated.

https://www.usebruno.com/pricing Bruno is not free. It has a free version, but you can pay to have more features.

The pay plan is "pre-order", the features don't exist yet.

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Post by Shorel »

ho_schi wrote: post #277
skydhash wrote: post #9

I myself use Paw [0] because it's native to MacOS, but I'm a little bit worried for it's longevity as it being supported by a SaaS business. But so far it's been great to document API for my personal projects. [0]: https://paw.cloud/

I’m envy? I’m hoping for a native GUI application for Linux. Electron looks ugly, it doesn’t integrate, fails to handle HiDPI usually, in best case it eats a ridiculous amount of memory (factor 5x compared to native) and in worst case it has security issues due to Blink and lot of JS. Electron is Flash for the Desktop.

Ohh, I wish it was only a factor of five. It would even be acceptable!

Discord the Electron app uses 1.2 GB of RAM.

Ripcord the compiled client uses about 30 MB of RAM.

That's a factor of over 42 times.

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Post by zubairshaik »

bennyp101 wrote: post #82

There was a discussion a while back when the whole insomnia thing happened, where the dev points out how he aims to not go the same route https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

Insightful read; thank you for sharing.

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Post by HeckFeck »

aniforprez wrote: post #335
pjmlp wrote: post #287

I find interesting on how on a startup related forum, anything related with not paying is always celebrated.

There is no universe where I see myself paying for postman. It was a bloated, hobbling mess that is now a chundering monster that has to somehow make money to satisfy VCs who invested in a glorified cURL interface and have to stuff it with features to try and entice enterprises. It is everything wrong with software and I welcome any lightweight alternatives

This. The UI was one of the most appalling, unintuitive messes I've ever encountered on any software product.

The game was up for Postman when I realised I could replicate all its functionality I needed by asking ChatGPT to write me some Perl scripts that made heavy use of LWP.

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Post by Yiin »

fifilura wrote: post #367
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you just rtfm? I'm not interested in "convincing" you, you're free to proudly declare that you refuse to read the docs, and you have an odd definition of "rant".

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searching for conflicts probably (I don't know you so I might be getting wrong impression from this thread, sorry if that's the case) takes up more of your time than whatever time you save by not doing whatever you deem "inefficient time usage".

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Post by tmm84 »

Piisamirotta wrote: post #264

Lately Postman suddenly required creating an account to their cloud, to use my five different rest requests from scratchpad. I got annoyed so bad that deleted that piece of cr*p immediately. Never looking back. Then I found Bruno and fell in love. Thanks for the great work!

For me, I had a project full of test cases in Postman and one day I was connected to the internet it phoned home to update. After the update it said I needed an account (okay, use work email no big deal) after logging in it said all my test cases and collections were gone. From there it was shell scripts with curl for me.
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