This thing is cool. How did you do the visual terminal layout?
Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal
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#32Am I the only one who prefers to use nodejs and fetch for this these days? Especially since I need it to work in Windows (and no, I can't install WSL).
Then you may like https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook
Why? It does less than what plain code can do, it's less flexible, and harder to understand. Seriously, what problem is this trying to solve?
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#33Am I the only one that hates what the internet became? All HTTP APIs that are all made to interact with JSON.
what would you suggest?
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#34This is great, I could see myself using it daily. The only hindrance I've found so far is navigating large responses. Would be cool to have some way to collapse chunks of JSON (a la https://github.com/antonmedv/fx), or even just more vim key navigation, like G/gg, %, {/}, and search.
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#35This thing is cool. How did you do the visual terminal layout?
That would be Textual https://textual.textualize.io/
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#36this looks really great! since insomnia started requiring an account I never really settled on anything else. the one thing that worries me is compatibility - I echo the voices asking for hurl support. it kinda sucks that each of these programs invents its own format. it would also be great to be able to run these requests as part of a CI pipeline, without opening the TUI. supporting a format like hurl would add this…
Thanks for the feedback! It is actually intended that you create the collection yourself first, but I should perhaps make that clearer.
Hiding how to quit the app was just another attempt to win over the Vim crowd!
(Yes ctrl+c is the intended way, it’s in the docs now and I’ll add it to the app footer)
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#37This is great, I could see myself using it daily. The only hindrance I've found so far is navigating large responses. Would be cool to have some way to collapse chunks of JSON (a la https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ), or even just more vim key navigation, like G/gg, %, {/}, and search.
I agree that could be improved! The extra Vim keys you suggested should be simple enough to add.
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#38This is awesome. Here are a couple bits of feedback: - It took me a while to find the Metadata tab to edit a request's name, I guess because I don't think of the name and description as metadata (even if in a technical sense they are, relative to the request config). My inclination would be to make this the first tab and rename it to Info. - I somehow managed to save two requests into the same file with no warning/co…
Great feedback, thank you. I agree “Info” is probably clearer.
There are a couple of UX sharp edges to clear up for sure - a bit more validation, confirmations, etc to be added.
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#39After never being happy with Postman or Insomnia and defaulting to 'curlie' for http requests, Posting is the first http gui that I'm actually sticking with. I have a terminal tab with it open all the time and it somehow manages to be more efficient than "up arrow+enter" (since you can just hit enter). Thanks for improving my workflow, Darren!
Thanks for your kind words!
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#40We've strayed so far from God