There is also https://httpie.io
Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
61–70 of 129 posts
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#62Am I the only one who use CURL over such tools? I don't want a 300MB electron client doing GET/POST work, especially those with hidden telemetry on.
I guess it really depends on your usecase. If you're just _hacking_ a few simple calls, curl is the way to go. But if you're working in a team, with multiple environments, with complex payloads, authentication, doing dozens of API calls everyday... Having a software able to manage libraries of endpoints, parameters, simple environment switching, included auth, sharing between team members... is a big time saver. I pe…
This and also when you newly join a team it is more productive to start using the tooling what they are using and move to preferred tooling once familiar with the API endpoints.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#63Am I the only one who use CURL over such tools? I don't want a 300MB electron client doing GET/POST work, especially those with hidden telemetry on.
I'm not a fan of curl. I like the idea of "simple is better" but I don't like working with just curl. i need a bit of squish
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#64If you use a VSCode-based editor, a good alternative can be the "REST Client" extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... I’ve been burned a few times by these clients — difficult backups, changing licensing/commercial terms, hard to version — so now I prefer a few simple .http files that I can version in Git and easily read, even if the extension disappears.
it’s so good. no context switching with a different app. also, there’s a fairly compatible version for emacs with the same name.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#65How's Paw for macOS?
https://paw.cloud/
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#66The industry has largely moved to [Bruno]( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )
Bruno slowly changed the policy from "we are all free" to "we are mostly free" to "pay for feature A, B, C" Understandable, but feals like being tricked into something.
this is (at least) the third time we've seen this in this exact space: Postman, Insomnia, Bruno.
At this point I just use the REST client extension in VS Code (Rider has one too) or HURL. The lack of GUI makes it a little tougher for new people, but file-based is nice, and in the end I have much stronger skills & understanding in the area.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#67What is https://httpyac.github.io/ missing in comparison to postman, insomnia or hopscotch? I really like being able to run .http files as unit tests in ci as well as during debugging.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#68Hurl https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl For those who prefer an efficient command line tool
I've landed on the REST extension in VS Code for development and interactive work, and Hurl for more test/automation stuff. Both take a little more effort to get setup but way more productive than the typical Postman workflows I see.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#69Without sounding like every other developer who hates on electron, I would really appreciate an http client with a Gui that was lighter, like iced or slint. I appreciate the versatility of electron and it giving us beautiful and usable apps but I have 16 GB of ram, I can't upgrade it and I genuinely have multi second hangs after I have 3 instances of VSCode, Firefox and Chrome open along with Bruno.
Bruno is nice because unlike postman all the calls are defined in files that you can add to the git of your project. Only thing I don't like about Bruno is that you cannot generate a documentation from your api call tests.
Are there non-binary versions of Bruno?
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait so he sold his product and they didn't put a NCC on him?
He sold it some time ago. Either it expired, he negotiated out of it, or there was never much of one to begin with. My guess it was a little of all three. I think a lot of what Kong wanted with it already happened - it seems to have helped them grow. They still have it and it's still helping but I don't think Yaak is that big of a threat to it. Kong still has a major API client in a space that has room for more than…
It feels like they were after a similar strategy as when Fiddler was sold. They can control the narative and likely use it as an onramp to their other (much more expensive) products when developers introduce any of their tolling into the enterprise.