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I don’t get the appeal of Postman. Collections are great but I’ve always preferred plain old curl.
I only wish Postman didn't freeze when adding a big JSON to a request. If you add it through their interface it freezes for a while in the best case scenario or freezes until you kill it. Postman on my Mac is now broken because a big JSON (almost 1mb) is stored on one of the opened tabs which makes it freezes on launch. I'll have to purge everything and install it again, thankfully that tab isn't saved in my profile…
Insomnia has always served me much better than postman
I tried insomnia for the first time the other day. The big missing bit is that you can't inherit authentication from the collection container, so all you're requests use the same oauth2 method or whatever. You need to set it up for each request in the collection.
In the next 1-2 months you will see the biggest amount of improvements the Insomnia application has ever seen, since here at Kong we are pouring tons of resources into it.
I only wish Postman didn't freeze when adding a big JSON to a request. If you add it through their interface it freezes for a while in the best case scenario or freezes until you kill it. Postman on my Mac is now broken because a big JSON (almost 1mb) is stored on one of the opened tabs which makes it freezes on launch. I'll have to purge everything and install it again, thankfully that tab isn't saved in my profile…
Kinda sad that it’s 2023, we have ray tracing and LLMs but we label 1mb of text as “big”
Maybe it's a Postman on Mac thing, I've never used it on any other platform.
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Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh
Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it
Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
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Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh
Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it
To stay unbiased, here's a list of other web based postman alternatives:
- https://hoppscotch.io (this is the most popular one)
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Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh
What don't you like about Insomnia?
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Insomnia feels like it's falling down the same rabbit hole as postman. It's used to be a more usable, less overbuilt, bloated, alternative to postman, but now... meh
I don't think I've seen any real material difference to Insomnia towards the negative after they were acquired. It still works just fine. It's far FAR less bloated than Postman and easier to use than alternatives like Paw (now RapidAPI)
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postman was essentially built as a easy GUI version of curl. Once it went the VC route it kinda jumped the shark.
Agreed. Postman is a classic victim of "Enshittification" to try to recoup the VC money. I prefer this VS Code plugin for the very simple stuff https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... I'm sure there's a gap for a "better postman" that's more complex that that, but a lot less encrusted than postman. However IMHO, the more complex scripted testing is better done in your main dev language Source:…