I'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/
Paw is fantastic- just missing GraphQL support to be even more fantastic.
Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
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#82Don't forget to paste your auth tokens into a random website today.
Is it any safer than pasting your auth tokens into a standalone application like Postman? That can just as easily send that information somewhere else, but now you can't press F12, get a network tab, and look at outgoing requests.
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#83This is neat.
One of the projects in my to-do list is to make a gender-neutral version of postman, postperson.
I guess now I can just fork this. Thx!
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I've used them all: Postman, Insomnia, Paw, and other online web apps. Unfortunately none come close to being usable for large APIs imo. Some of the problems I faced off the top of my head (it's almost 2 years ago now since I tried them all though, but I haven't seen much change to be honest): Insomnia: doesn't really have any support for documentation stuff. It is just an HTTP client that if you share your workspace…
I like the fact insomnia has no extended support for documentation, I want it to only be a simple http tool.
I use swagger for endpoint documentation. ideally, I could just post an example from swagger into insomnia, or import basic examples.
What do you mean by "You cannot nest anything" wrt swagger?
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#85I'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.
I really like how insomnia / postman let you collapse objects. It helps keep everything neat when poking around the data returned. I didnt see the ability to do this with postwoman
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#86Working on integrating other companies APIs and find declarative approach easier like VSCode has this extension where you could write all API calls in code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've used them all: Postman, Insomnia, Paw, and other online web apps. Unfortunately none come close to being usable for large APIs imo. Some of the problems I faced off the top of my head (it's almost 2 years ago now since I tried them all though, but I haven't seen much change to be honest): Insomnia: doesn't really have any support for documentation stuff. It is just an HTTP client that if you share your workspace…
It's always surprising to me that something so central, api documentation, is so abandoned in the industry. It's.. weird. I guess it shows how little devs prioritize documentation.
Probably because its out of date as soon as its published..
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#88Working on integrating other companies APIs and find declarative approach easier like VSCode has this extension where you could write all API calls in code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
If you're already in VS Code I prefer the rest extension as well. It's great for making quick one-off calls but is a little under-powered for organizing larger sets of endpoints, credentials, etc
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#89I'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.
I switched to Insomnia from Postman a couple of years ago - love it!
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#90Since it was added, my favourite way to do API requests is IntelliJ Http client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... You just write the requests. That's it. Not much of an interface or anything. It also supports creating requests from a cURL command (so in Chromium devtools you can copy the cURL request and then paste it in IntelliJ).
That's pretty nice! I'm a Rider user, which is based on IntelliJ... Will need to check if Rider has this!