Leaving this here as it's by the creator of Insomnia: https://yaak.app/
Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
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Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#32The industry has largely moved to [Bruno]( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )
The industry being who? Because this is the first time I've heard of Bruno? And what does it do that the others don't?
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#33The industry has largely moved to [Bruno]( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )
Yes, But. It doesn't seem like the worst - yet - but Bruno also ramped up their monetization. So far it seems survivable. But given how things have gone before, it's unclear how viable Bruno will really remain. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170934
Are these applications forever doomed? First Postman, then Insomnia, now Bruno...
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#34If you use a VSCode-based editor, a good alternative can be the "REST Client" extension:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
I’ve been burned a few times by these clients — difficult backups, changing licensing/commercial terms, hard to version — so now I prefer a few simple .http files that I can version in Git and easily read, even if the extension disappears.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#35https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266#issuecomm...
Going to leave this here for shady practices. A pull request was declined by the CEO since they were planning to build an OIDC feature into the enterprise plan.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#36What is https://httpyac.github.io/ missing in comparison to postman, insomnia or hopscotch? I really like being able to run .http files as unit tests in ci as well as during debugging.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#37The industry has largely moved to [Bruno]( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )
How does you arrive at a conclusion like this? Based on what metrics?
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#38The industry has largely moved to [Bruno]( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )
Bruno slowly changed the policy from "we are all free" to "we are mostly free" to "pay for feature A, B, C"
Understandable, but feals like being tricked into something.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#39If you use a VSCode-based editor, a good alternative can be the "REST Client" extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... I’ve been burned a few times by these clients — difficult backups, changing licensing/commercial terms, hard to version — so now I prefer a few simple .http files that I can version in Git and easily read, even if the extension disappears.
That extension is excellent! Been using it for few years already
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#40Ah, the cycle of REST clients. Start useful, get bloated, enshittify, alternative pops up.