This is probably the worst website I have ever used. Why does it have a progress bar, why is everything slow, why is it not simply a html page. What is going on with these people. Also, author quote : >I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app But proceeds to create more slow running web stuff. Okay. Is it just me or does this just seem like such a strange behavior?
Even by HN standards this seems like an excessive level of cynicism for a bog standard blog post format.
Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
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Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
#52This is probably the worst website I have ever used. Why does it have a progress bar, why is everything slow, why is it not simply a html page. What is going on with these people. Also, author quote : >I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app But proceeds to create more slow running web stuff. Okay. Is it just me or does this just seem like such a strange behavior?
Are you talking about the indiehackers website? That's not made by the author of the post
Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
#53I'm just a user of this, but if anyone is looking for a truly native MacOS version of Postman, you should take a look at Paw. https://paw.cloud/
Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
#54This is probably the worst website I have ever used. Why does it have a progress bar, why is everything slow, why is it not simply a html page. What is going on with these people. Also, author quote : >I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app But proceeds to create more slow running web stuff. Okay. Is it just me or does this just seem like such a strange behavior?
Are you talking about the indiehackers website? That's not made by the author of the post
Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
#55I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Insomnia. https://insomnia.rest/ It's an excellent tool that allows defining workspaces and even sharing sets of routes with members of your team. It's one of my favourite tools.
Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
#56I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Insomnia. https://insomnia.rest/ It's an excellent tool that allows defining workspaces and even sharing sets of routes with members of your team. It's one of my favourite tools.
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#57After Postman lost all my saved queries after an upgrade I switched to Insomnia - https://insomnia.rest/ and am quite happy with it.
I'm curious to know what gives you the confidence that Insomnia won't lose your saved data? Are you paying the premium for the data sync?
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#58I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Insomnia. https://insomnia.rest/ It's an excellent tool that allows defining workspaces and even sharing sets of routes with members of your team. It's one of my favourite tools.
Can you comment on the I/O of documentation from it? Ie, I hate how Postman and friends want to be the nexus / saas of my products API documentation. I want to work with something in a common format, like OpenAPI, RAML or BlueprintAPI. These HTTP clients are nice, but I want them to be a tool, not required. Thoughts?
Insomnia: doesn't really have any support for documentation stuff. It is just an HTTP client that if you share your workspace with your team, is some kind of documentation. But you cannot share this outside of your organisation.
Postman: their documentation implementation seems one of the better ones, but Postman itself just isn't very DRY. For example we have a slightly different authentication scheme which isn't supported so we had to add a simple Javascript snippet to each request, but keeping all of them updated is impossible. I personally also wasn't a big fan of their client and it's not very user-friendly imo.
Paw: honestly pretty good. I asked them a few years ago to implement this and keep me posted. They eventually implemented some documentation stuff, but it's proprietary and using a plugin to convert to RAML or something else is a pain. When I used it, it also wasn't very expansive. It also faces the same problem as Insomnia: you are not able to share it outside your team. Though it also requires everyone to buy Paw and own a Mac. I switched to Linux a few years ago and so don't use my account anymore, that I paid for.
OpenAPI/Swagger: OpenAPI itself is great, but the website GUI that Swagger converts it to is basically useless for large APIs. You cannot nest anything and it is not very good for public documentation.
RAML: I personally love this syntax the most. Though there barely is any support for it. You cannot find any mature library or application that can convert it to actual usable documentation pages. It's also honestly a big pain to write all of the documentation at once.
BlueprintAPI: this is just way too barebones. I immediately stopped using it after trying it.
There were some others I tried, none really noteworthy. It's been a while as well so it's possible that some of my opinions are out of date.
Re: Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
#59I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Insomnia. https://insomnia.rest/ It's an excellent tool that allows defining workspaces and even sharing sets of routes with members of your team. It's one of my favourite tools.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably lower memory usage due to not running in a separate process. On a low-end PC this is a completely valid concern. Chrome is memory hungry. Running one instance might be viable. Running 2, 3 or 6 probably isn't (and you can always choose a less memory-hungry browser).
If performances are a concern I would build it in QT, not Javascript. Just opening Firefox eats like 400 MB ram on my PC !