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Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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If you use VS Code REST Client is awesome https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

If you use IntelliJ based products, the builtin HTTP Client is awesome. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

Yeah, this is what I moved to after Insomnia started down the same path as Postman. Very portable text files that can work anywhere.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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> What if the folders and requests within the API collection could be mapped to folders and files on the filesystem? … Ultimately, I realized that file-based API collections were the future. Unlike other tools, such as Postman or Insomnia, Bruno would allow users to maintain their collections in a source code repository using Git for collaboration.

Can someone help me understand what is meant by this API can be mapped to folders & files comment.

https://www.usebruno.com/blog/the-saas-dilemma

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSMFpbcPiY

Interesting talk about Bruno by the founder about Bruno! Includes its naming origin (very nice btw), the philosophy, a brief demo and overview of the architecture, with a couple of interesting surprises at the end. Is a good watch!

Keep up the great work!

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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IDEs such as JetBrains Rider and Visual Studio offer a .http file feature for making HTTP requests, reducing the necessity of tools like Postman and Bruno, particularly for basic scenarios. Regardless, I'm happy to see Bruno as an alternative. I don't often need to test HTTP APIs but when I tried Postman in the past signing up was just too painful when I only needed to use it for a few basic calls.

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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For me, I had a project full of test cases in Postman and one day I was connected to the internet it phoned home to update. After the update it said I needed an account (okay, use work email no big deal) after logging in it said all my test cases and collections were gone. From there it was shell scripts with curl for me.

You may be able to replace some of your curl+shell with Hurl — https://hurl.dev/#also-an-http-test-tool .

Why should someone bother to do this, if they already know and have a handle on cURL's syntax?

Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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You may be able to replace some of your curl+shell with Hurl — https://hurl.dev/#also-an-http-test-tool .

Why should someone bother to do this, if they already know and have a handle on cURL's syntax?

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Re: Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

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Yes,Bruno is far better than Postman in terms of many aspects. One of them being the non-usage of third party proprietary server. It provides more security and more control over data.

Does it ask me to sign in every time I launch it like Postman does? How annoying and useless for me.
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