Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client • Hacker News Board

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by psynapse » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:37 AM UTC

Tried out the Chrome plugin when RESTClient stopped working in Firefox. It stuck, and now I believe all of my small team uses it. I've been on the stand-alone version since release.

I use it for testing, but also more as a diagnostics/control panel for a software suite that we expose via a growing HTTPS API - saving the requests and payloads makes this easy.

One thing I miss from RESTClient is the formatting. We have a small JSON DSL that we exchange data with, so those strings have to be escaped going up, and of course they come back with all the escapes. In RESTClient, you could view the response "formatted", which would un-escape those strings. This made for easy copy and manipulation.

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by aniceguy » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:41 AM UTC

I found this https://github.com/S2-/http-client open source client quite good. It uses chrome in the background to make the requests (you can see it by hitting f12), so proxy settings and all the other stuff works fine.

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by nhatbui » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:52 AM UTC

Hi, I definitely like the UI/UX of this over ARC. I haven't used Paw or Postman.

It sounds like you're taking suggestions so my only one would be configurations that make working with OAuth simpler like OAuth signature generation.

Great work!

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by pcx » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:53 AM UTC

We've been using Postman https://www.getpostman.com/, and it's been working great for our team. The sync and export features are killer. But I like the dark theme and the vertical split in Insomnia, will give it a try.

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by johanbas » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:53 AM UTC

gschier wrote: post #19

niftich wrote: post #17

I find the visual design appealing, and at a cursory glance, the list of features decent. A few questions: - Is there a way to override the cookies of a single request? Or do you have to edit the cookie jar and the corresponding cookies get auto-sent (ie. no override) - For authorization, do you have built-in support for OAuth 2.0 access/refresh token flows? What about OAuth 1 ? - Do you support HTTP/2?

Thanks for the compliment! Having good UI/UX was my first goal for Insomnia so I'm glad to see it's working. - there is no way to override cookies per request yet, but that's good feedback :) - I'm working on OAuth support soon so keep an eye out for that - HTTP/2 support isn't in the works yet, but is on the roadmap Thanks for the comment!

OAuth is on my requirements list as well. Especially OAuth2 - client_credentials

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by danellis » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:53 AM UTC

gschier wrote: post #12

mrmondo wrote: post #10

Hi, is this a native (objective c / swift) OS X or just a web frame? What are you main goals as far as being different from Paw, which is what I use and love thus far? *edit: oh and congratulations on getting your app out there :)

Thanks for the question! Insomnia is an Electron app built with with a mix of React and Elm. As an independent developer wanting to reach all platforms, Electron was basically the only option for me. And, as a web developer, it's been a super productive development environment. The goal for Insomnia is to build a REST client that's easy to learn and a joy to use. I looked into other REST clients before starting Insom…

> As an independent developer wanting to reach all platforms, Electron was basically the only option for me.

I'm not saying you made the wrong choice, but why do you say that, given the various options for cross-platform development (Qt, Mono, etc)?

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by sapphire_tomb » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:53 AM UTC

maxpert wrote: post #32

I use Google chrome + Postman ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbifli... extension URL), this seems good but makes me wonder how much of a work it is for Postman to now run there app on electron.

Unfortunately, Postman's native apps don't handle NTLM authentication, which basically makes them unusable for me. Have to stick with the chrome extension for the time being.

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by yegor256a » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:55 AM UTC

Good job, very nice UI!

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by gschier » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:56 AM UTC

nul_byte wrote: post #27

Executionable which won't run on my machine (Fedora) and not open source, guess I will be staying with Advance Rest Client then.

Hi there. Can you try downloading the latest version again. Apparently the last release was corrupted for an unknown reason. I uploaded a new one though :)

Re: Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

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Post by gopishankar28 » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 6:56 AM UTC

I just installed and ran a request, seems the response xml format was not available as nicely formatted. I just saw a junk of xml as result. Is there any configuration available for the auto formatting with indents for the sub-elements. I believe postman does it by itself.