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Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by bladelessninja2 »

hbn wrote: post #13

Postman is so incredibly bloated and slow these days. All I want is a REST client, but it feels like every time I want to perform a basic task now, I have to dig past all of their confusing platform and cloud stuff that I have no interest in.

To make things even worse I also recently (v. 9.11.0) found Postman process hanging on in my memory after I close it. This behavior isn't bad on its own, the problem is that after few days (of not using the app at all) it ended up eating 10% of my CPU time. Since killing the process manually after using the app isn't the experience I want to have when dealing with simple tool I ended up testing some alternatives.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by saikatsg »

avel wrote: post #68

As I have also been frustrated with the direction Postman has taken, I have a great alternative to suggest, if the only thing you want to do is fire requests on demand easily and do not need automated testing. The VS Code Rest Client extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... is great for testing and debugging APIs. You create a "my_request.http" file that contains something like POST h…

Also, Thunder client is a lightweight REST API client extension for VS Code. Good fit for basic usage requirements.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by itsharshag »

hbn wrote: post #13

Postman is so incredibly bloated and slow these days. All I want is a REST client, but it feels like every time I want to perform a basic task now, I have to dig past all of their confusing platform and cloud stuff that I have no interest in.

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Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by jen20 »

viro wrote: post #139
pm90 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an excellent question. What I’ve noticed is that developers are incredibly annoyed when their tools don’t work well. Developers use their tools a lot, and when a tool starts “misbehaving” (resource hungry, sporadic failure, non ergonomic design etc) they are exposed to that failure constantly. This constant exposure can create intense feelings (either love or hatred) and nowhere to express them, so it will sp…

man, terraform errors are VERY vague. at least when I was using it.

Terraform's error messages for things it has control over are incredibly precise. It does not have control over the content of errors are returned by provider APIs, and they are often very vague.

Re: Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Post by viro »

jen20 wrote: post #215
viro wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

man, terraform errors are VERY vague. at least when I was using it.

Terraform's error messages for things it has control over are incredibly precise. It does not have control over the content of errors are returned by provider APIs, and they are often very vague.

It also probably didn't help that I was doing on prim VMWare which wasn't a super common use case at the time.
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