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Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork? Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource…

Perhaps it will be a repeat of this.

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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Insomnia already does this, at least did as of version 2022.6.0. Right click on the name of the request in the sidebar to find "copy as curl" and "generate code", Ctrl+Shift+G also brings up the Generate Code interface. I'll check if the more up to date version that insomnium is based on has the same feature once I get it built.

When I went looking for alternatives to Insomnia I was pleasantly surprised to see that RecipeUI[1] will let paste in curl commands with various flags etc. and parse those to generate new entries, pretty slick. 1: https://github.com/RecipeUI/RecipeUI

Hi, one of the makers of RecipeUI. Happy to hear this is something you liked! We're still finding edge cases when it comes to parsing cURL commands, so if you find any that we missed please file an issue or send us a message (here or discord).

Also glad to hear any other feedback you have :)

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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Hey everyone.. wish we were here discussing something more positive. however... I happen to know that the Kong CTO is extremely obsessed with GitHub stars and vanity metrics so he can impress investors (e.g. check out his twitter to see him bragging about star counts). The best thing you can do to get Kong's attention on how horribly they have handled this situation is... unstar https://github.com/kong/insomnia ...an…

perhaps more heartbreaking is a tweet from the original creator of Insomnia[1] (who sold it to Kong some years ago) which reminds me of the time a year ago when Insomnia forced the GitHub stars count to be prominently placed in the product, but explicitly without any way to disable it[2]. It was later disabled but just for paying users..

You can see the CTO arguing with people in that thread about it.

1: https://twitter.com/GregorySchier/status/1707472402454835593 2: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5056#issuecomment-12...

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

#34

Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork? Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource…

https://hoppscotch.io/ is another one

It’s VC-funded…

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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https://hoppscotch.io/ is another one

It’s VC-funded…

I think their model is acceptable and sustainable. It's MIT licensed, and they make money on the self-hosted enterprise edition that gives you SSO, permissions, audits, etc.

Recently switched to it after going through most of the alternatives, because it has a clean UX, works on every OS without install, and has all of the features I need.

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 It was later turned into a discussion here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590 However, the discussion was closed so newer issues have been created.

I saw they mentioned Git Sync as alternative. Do they do something to prevent that from working locally? Git itself does not need any remotes to be configured or you could set the remote to be another local git repository.

Replying to myself after looking at old discussion: It looks like the git mode is only available after logging in.

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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What is it with generic HTTP clients and their data/account hunger? And why has no fully selfhosted team collaboration tool stood up?

I’m also a bit baffled. What’s so hard about curl with a UI? Why are there multiple entire companies in this space? I mean, competition is great and all, but these two at least look in a race to the bottom.

At my company I started building an app to do api calls to our own api. It’s basically specialised version of Insomnia/Postman, because BOTH of them managed to screw my configuration. And you are right: it’s nothing insanely hard. Granted - a more general purpose version would be a bit more tricky due to the need of handling special cases, but it is nothing too difficult.

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

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It’s VC-funded…

I think their model is acceptable and sustainable. It's MIT licensed, and they make money on the self-hosted enterprise edition that gives you SSO, permissions, audits, etc. Recently switched to it after going through most of the alternatives, because it has a clean UX, works on every OS without install, and has all of the features I need.

I'm gonna be a cynic here. Maybe they have a sustainable model _now_, but there is no telling for how long the VCs will be happy with the revenue this model generates. Somewhere down the line they might want to see a better ROI that involves converting Hoppscotch to a cloud-only app just like Postman and Insomnia

Re: Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

#39

Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork? Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource…

Yes! I plan to maintain it long-term! I will be rolling out some feature improvements and updates these few weeks.

I still think Kong did a good job in crafting the product. I started using Insomnia in my previous company 3 years ago and our team loved it.

What happened recently felt a little bit like the Unity fiasco (of course, in a much much smaller scale). Though as a user I would say Kong had taken a bad turn, as a dev I'm still grateful to them for open-sourcing such a fantastic product.

One of the reasons I forked Insomnia was because it uses React & Electron, both of which I'm quite familiar with. And I think many parts of Insomnia are quite nicely written overall (but unfortunately things like nedb that was used is no longer maintained https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb so it's probably wise to swap out at some point)

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