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Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by written-beyond »

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.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by jmorenoamor »

politelemon wrote: post #10

Terminal based: https://posting.sh/

Looks cool, I will try it. How are collections stored? My use case involves programatically generating collections.

If the tool suits, I would also need to write a converter from Bruno files to it.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by jurschreuder »

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.

Bruno is nice because unlike postman all the calls are defined in files that you can add to the git of your project.

Only thing I don't like about Bruno is that you cannot generate a documentation from your api call tests.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by benatkin »

tills13 wrote: post #6
captn3m0 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Insomnia creator has also started https://Yaak.app , which uses Tauri instead of electron iirc.

Wait so he sold his product and they didn't put a NCC on him?

He sold it some time ago. Either it expired, he negotiated out of it, or there was never much of one to begin with. My guess it was a little of all three. I think a lot of what Kong wanted with it already happened - it seems to have helped them grow. They still have it and it's still helping but I don't think Yaak is that big of a threat to it. Kong still has a major API client in a space that has room for more than one.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by bakugo »

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

Electron is hated for very good reasons. Postman in particular is just so insanely bloated and sluggish, it's painful to use on anything that doesn't have a higher end CPU.

Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

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Post by mootoday »

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.

Sounds like you're looking for https://yaak.app/.
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