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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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Post by jicea »

twodave wrote: post #66
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #20

I have nothing against this app or the other graphical HTTP tools like Postman, Insomnia, etc., as people clearly get value out of them, but personally, I've moved everything over to Hurl --> hurl.dev - Open source - Text files all the way down - Easily understood DSL - Easily distributed - Easily versioned - Fast Download the executable, copy the two lines below into "first-test.hurl" and you're up and running. GET…

I took a lot of inspiration from Hurl while building Nap[0]. My next goals for it are a UI and/or a VS Code extension. [0] https://naprun.dev

You reused a lot of "concepts" like captures, queries, filters, predicates etc... I take it as a compliment, there is a place for everybody (I'm one of the Hurl maintainers)

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Post by redkoala »

helloanoop wrote: post #236

Hey everyone, this is Anoop - creator of Bruno. Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN! I will try to address some common questions in this comment. > Well based on historical experience with Postman and Insomnia most probably Bruno will go the same way once they get enough users hooked in. Especially once a VC gets into the fold. We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date…

Would you support compatibility with .http files in the future?

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Post by nwsm »

Looks very nice; I've also given up with Postman. gRPC support would probably get Bruno into my daily workflow immediately. I spent a couple hours in Postman trying to get gRPC to work and could not- the .proto files were never used successfully, and I ended up having better experiences with Kreya [0] and grpcui [1].

[0] https://kreya.app/ [1] https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui

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Post by groone »

Piisamirotta wrote: post #264

Lately Postman suddenly required creating an account to their cloud, to use my five different rest requests from scratchpad. I got annoyed so bad that deleted that piece of cr*p immediately. Never looking back. Then I found Bruno and fell in love. Thanks for the great work!

I moved to k6 - a tool meant for load tests but flexible and great for any kind of API tests. Great for any kind of scenarios as the tests are in javascript

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Post by LaffertyDev »

fuzzy2 wrote: post #301
superfrank wrote: post #135

Funny. I just found Bruno two weeks ago after getting fed up with Insomnia and am loving it. It feels like what Postman and Insomnia were when they started. Simple and to the point. There are a few minor features I miss (being able to bulk edit headers is the main one), but overall I highly recommend it.

Just curious, what’s your gripe with Insomnia? I find its UX a little clunky at times but haven’t found anything limiting my use cases.

Personally, it was Insomnia shifting to requiring an account and promoting "enterprise" features that clutter the experience and get in the way of me doing my job.

From there, I did research and found `insomnium` and a coworker found `bruno`. Bruno aligned closer to what I value, so now I use that.

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #344
yard2010 wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine this cloud enshitification reaches everything else. You need a cloud account to curl or wget, use ffmpeg or simply sed lol

Emacs, org-mode, and restclient-mode will be there :)

How to get into emacs? Where would you recommend to start for an absolute dunce?

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Post by MissTake »

majkinetor wrote: post #305
MissTake wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily so. We don’t pay but our small team still shares projects with the tool.

Sure, its possible, not exactly great experience though.

Works for us just fine.

How do you know it’s not a great experience?

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Post by kipple »

tdudhhu wrote: post #307
Piisamirotta wrote: post #264

Lately Postman suddenly required creating an account to their cloud, to use my five different rest requests from scratchpad. I got annoyed so bad that deleted that piece of cr*p immediately. Never looking back. Then I found Bruno and fell in love. Thanks for the great work!

Insomnia did the same. There was an option to migrate to an offline account but the migration did not work. So I turned to Bruno. I have been happy with it but there are some strange issues. Sometimes it does not save settings when I press Ctrl s. I still don't know when this happens but I lost some work a couple of times because of this.

I've noticed this same save issue in Bruno

The fix for me: cmd+s only works if the left pane (Query, Body, etc) has focus

Save does not work if the right pane (Response, Headers, etc) has focus

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