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Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by ozim »

necessary wrote: post #96
lelanthran wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron, I would really appreciate an http client with a Gui that was lighter, like iced or slint. How much would you be willing to pay for such a client? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know, because as an independent developer, every single time I suggest a native application using native widgets to a client, they choose the HTML interfa…

This is a good business perspective, but I don’t really see why this couldn’t be someone’s open source passion project. The comment wasn’t really implying that they needed a paid tool, just a tool that suits their needs and is lightweight. Plenty of the software I use on a daily basis is open source software where you could argue that the economics shouldn’t have been there.

You see the problem in your comment:

why this couldn’t be SOMEONE’S ELSE passion project

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by codechicago277 »

StimDeck wrote: post #53
codechicago277 wrote: post #20

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HTTPie is imo the best one now.

Been on the old CLI version of HTTPie for years now. Or are you talking about the GUI version?

Yeah I started using the GUI version, there’s a standalone app or the in browser one. I don’t know why all of these web request clients have been trying to sell enterprise features instead of just giving you a gui to make a quick request.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by literallyroy »

jellyfishbeaver wrote: post #93
DrBenCarson wrote: post #3

The industry has largely moved to [Bruno]( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )

My whole organization picked up Bruno after the whole Postman fiasco. I've found Bruno to be very unpolished and buggy. We've run into bugs where the UI will show one value, but when the request sends it uses a previously overwritten variable. Looking forward to having to move to something else, again.. sigh

Insomnia creator has a new one called Yaak that is open source.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by literallyroy »

natebc wrote: post #92
jmorenoamor wrote: post #22

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I moved to Bruno for being local, but even before being polished, I see it's taking the cloud route

How so? In their README they specifically state: > Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269 >. I glanced over that github discussion and don't see where they've gone back on that statement. Am I just missing where they've taken the cl…

They haven’t, yet. https://royathan.com/blog/the-api-client-hunt/

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by literallyroy »

gschier wrote: post #80
skeeter2020 wrote: post #78

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>> The offline-first API client you'll love so I get I can run it offline, and call local (dev) apis, but is this really the major feature we want & need? How are people going to react when he pulls the same bait and switch for their API tooling a second time?

The reason I started Yaak was because of what happened after I sold it. What makes you think I'd do that again?

Stopping by here to stay thank you. Yaak is excellent.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by d0mine »

written-beyond wrote: post #24

Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron, I would really appreciate an http client with a Gui that was lighter, like iced or slint. I appreciate the versatility of electron and it giving us beautiful and usable apps but I have 16 GB of ram, I can't upgrade it and I genuinely have multi second hangs after I have 3 instances of VSCode, Firefox and Chrome open along with Bruno.

uvx posting

https://posting.sh

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by tecoholic »

rubymamis wrote: post #102
jenadine wrote: post #101

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I think you can also easily do the pretty animations in a 50mb in ram "native" application

Yes, you can, especially if you use Qt with QML like I do[1][2][3]. [1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/blog/orchids.mp4 [2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor [3] https://www.get-notes.com/

Wow! The blog post was an inspiring read. Thank you for showing what’s possible.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by PhilippGille »

lelanthran wrote: post #95
written-beyond wrote: post #24

Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron, I would really appreciate an http client with a Gui that was lighter, like iced or slint. I appreciate the versatility of electron and it giving us beautiful and usable apps but I have 16 GB of ram, I can't upgrade it and I genuinely have multi second hangs after I have 3 instances of VSCode, Firefox and Chrome open along with Bruno.

> Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron, I would really appreciate an http client with a Gui that was lighter, like iced or slint. How much would you be willing to pay for such a client? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know, because as an independent developer, every single time I suggest a native application using native widgets to a client, they choose the HTML interfa…

HTML/CSS can still be used for the frontend even without Electron. Some frameworks use the OS bundled web renderer instead:

- For Rust apps: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

- For Go apps: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

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