Terminal based: https://posting.sh/
That’s incredible, amazes me that you can get a GUI like this in terminal. Next someone will put doom in the terminal
Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
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Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#72I have a question about those tools.
One thing I really like in the SoapUI, is the ability to have mocks(for both REST and XML), so I can mock the responses of some of the requests. Any of those other opensource alternatives have that option?
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#73The 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.
They explicitly sold themselves as an Insomnia alt.
Here is their usage graph: https://star-history.com/#usebruno/bruno&Date
Insomnia introduced account shenanigans around the end of Sept 23: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#74Without 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.
I haven't tried it but there is Posting in a TUI: https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#75https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266#issuecomm... Going to leave this here for shady practices. A pull request was declined by the CEO since they were planning to build an OIDC feature into the enterprise plan.
This is really weak. I'm all for benevolent dictators ruling their projects to protect the conceptual integrity - until that means anti-user behaviour to only enrich themselves.
"But we need to do this to survive!"
no you don't; every handy tool with many substitutes doesn't need to be a startup, especially when your competitive difference is temporarily not doing the thing you're now going to do.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#76Without 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.
Bruno was supposed to free us from the other bad guy, then they added a subscription too. Fuck Bruno I guess.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#77Hoppscotch is a very cool product and now they also support the mTLS authentication, which was a long-awaited one. We moved out from Postman to use JMeter, since back then the feature was not available. Pretty happy to see it here again.
Jmeter is old and awkward, yet so powerful. Great for performance testing.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#78Leaving this here as it's by the creator of Insomnia: https://yaak.app/
>> The offline-first API client you'll love
so I get I can run it offline, and call local (dev) apis, but is this really the major feature we want & need? How are people going to react when he pulls the same bait and switch for their API tooling a second time?
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#79Am 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.
You may like Hurl [1]: it's an Open source cli based on curl (libcurl to be exact), to run and test HTTP requests with plain text (I'm one of the maintainers). We recently add --curl option to come back to curl. Give it a shout! [1]: https://hurl.dev
I've recently used Hurl to create a test suite for migrating a complex Nginx configuration to Caddy and it was a great choice!
I ran Caddy replacing the upstreams with mockbin-like services (don't remember which one I used) so it would respond with information about the request made by the proxy, so Hurl could make assertions on that.
Re: Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
#80Leaving this here as it's by the creator of Insomnia: https://yaak.app/
>> The offline-first API client you'll love so I get I can run it offline, and call local (dev) apis, but is this really the major feature we want & need? How are people going to react when he pulls the same bait and switch for their API tooling a second time?
The reason I started Yaak was because of what happened after I sold it. What makes you think I'd do that again?