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store REST API requests as files, such that you can git version-control them
may I recommend:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
super simple. just requires VS Code.
Im checking out Bruno as well though, looks like a great tool
I really like the idea of serializing requests to a Git-friendly text format. But if we want a Git-friendly text format, why not mimic HTTP/1.1 request syntax as much as possible? Maybe with Jekyll-like YAML front matter for metadata that doesn’t fit? So for Get Users.bru instead of the current example of: meta { name: Get Users type: http seq: 1 } get { url: https://reqres.in/api/users body: none } headers { Content…
Example:
GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1
###
POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1
content-type: application/json
{
"name": "sample",
"time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT"
}Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
I started using Yaak after Insomnia and Postman both decided to become user-hostile, it's decent: https://yaak.app/ You'll never guess who makes it.
Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
I did something similar as well. But instead curling from files I've been using http-files. Depending on which project I'm working on (and customer), I'll be using different tools to run em. But to show you an easy example to follow, you could check out this jetbrains cli tool https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/12/http-client-cli-run-...
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Can't echo this enough. Thank you! Beyond just the login reqs from Postman, the whole Postman UI has become an overcomplicated mess in my opinion. I just want something simple to make remote HTTP calls. I can understand adding some useful extra things like variable interpolation and separate environments, but beyond that, Postman went way off the "enterprisey" deep end.
You should try insomnia
I really like the idea of serializing requests to a Git-friendly text format. But if we want a Git-friendly text format, why not mimic HTTP/1.1 request syntax as much as possible? Maybe with Jekyll-like YAML front matter for metadata that doesn’t fit? So for Get Users.bru instead of the current example of: meta { name: Get Users type: http seq: 1 } get { url: https://reqres.in/api/users body: none } headers { Content…
I've used a plugin in both VS Code and IntelliJ that is just that, I just saw someone else post it too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Example: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name": "sample", "time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT" }
It’s painful having to do an import/export of the collection from a file every time you want to modify the collection or debug a test, though, and the JSON files are still not entirely diffable/code reviewable even with the guids stripped. But it works - you can collaborate as a team with postman without using their cloud.
But the idea of switching to a tool that actually wants you to work that way is definitely tempting.
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Can't echo this enough. Thank you! Beyond just the login reqs from Postman, the whole Postman UI has become an overcomplicated mess in my opinion. I just want something simple to make remote HTTP calls. I can understand adding some useful extra things like variable interpolation and separate environments, but beyond that, Postman went way off the "enterprisey" deep end.
You should try insomnia