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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)

#71

Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.

Can't echo this enough. Thank you! Beyond just the login reqs from Postman, the whole Postman UI has become an overcomplicated mess in my opinion. I just want something simple to make remote HTTP calls. I can understand adding some useful extra things like variable interpolation and separate environments, but beyond that, Postman went way off the "enterprisey" deep end.

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

#73

Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.

here's the thing, developers probably like to eat, so the program has to eventually make money somehow. how does this program plan to make money?

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

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The irony that I switched to Insomnia after Postman started demanding a login... and now I've been actively looking for alternatives (Bruno being on the list) now that Insomnia has done the same thing.

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.

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

#77

Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.

While I do hate Postman because its overcomplicated in everything.

But attitude like yours has shifted people and money away from developer tools. Instead of all the possible tools we could have from many developers, we are now totally dependent on big tech to sponsor it, like VSCode etc. And over time it would move in direction that will promote another service from the same company like copilot and vscode.

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

#78

Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.

I use httpie's CLI tool for testing application/json endpoints. That and some jq really can make some things nice.

(Apparently it has a GUI version as well, but I'm not interested in trying it.)

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

#80

Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.

I started using Yaak after Insomnia and Postman both decided to become user-hostile, it's decent: https://yaak.app/

You'll never guess who makes it.

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