2y ago

What alternative to 'postman' are you using?

What alternative to 'postman' do you like the most for simply testing a bunch of REST services?

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Insomnia user checking in..
- Same, although it has been getting shittier and shittier.
  
  How so? I recently switched to it from Postman and haven't heard much negative about it yet.
- i use insomnia as well
Until I saw the sub I thought this was going to be a question about what to call the postal officer now that we live in a modern society where women are trusted to stuff letterboxes as well as men. Postie is of course the answer to that.
- I go with mail carrier. Then again, the man in postman is supposedly from the old English “mann” which just meant person.
- I refer to mine with much ruder terms, but she often misses deliveries, so yeah.
- Relevant SMBC
curl?
I’ll use REST Client in visual studio code when working on Azure functions etc
- I use Thunder client in VSC.
Curl
- Same. Just curl. Good enough.
Curl. Or if I need to chain stuff together for auth reasons or whatever, sometimes ill just pop into a python virtualenv and use requests
Insomnia.rest generally is my tool: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
Thunder Client if you like to keep all the relevant requests n data inside the project directory, probably good for teams: https://open-vsx.org/extension/rangav/vscode-thunder-client
With VS-Codium (vscode with the microsoft telemetry scraped out): https://vscodium.com/
Sometimes swagger UI
HTTPie
- This looks very good. Thanks for sharing.
Why switch? Postman is still my go-to
- I want it free and open source and easy.
  They are getting more and more agressive with their paid services and so my guts have informed me that the end is near ;-)
  I have seen the same happening with Soapui before: suddenly nobody was using it anymore.
  
  Oh god, I have to use SoapUI at work occasionally, and I hate it so much.
  
  I rolled back to the previous version and deleted update.exe
- Same.
  Maybe my usecases are extremely basic. And all their Pro features are just bells and whistles that doesn't affect me but I hope someone does find value out of it.
https://hurl.dev is pretty sweet.
Hoppscotch.io works a treat
- Same here, absolutely love being able to write HTTP requests like code! With the auto completion I’m 10x faster writing requests than using Postman or Insomnia. You can define multiple requests in one file and execute them like a script. There’s also a templating feature which you can use for different environments.
Thunderclient for vscodium
I used to use Paw, but it's only available on OS X. It's a shame because it has the single best variable/templating system I've ever used. Since I prefer a cross platform and ideally open source solution though I've switched to Insomnia. It's not quite as good as Paw, but I can actually use it on Windows and Linux unlike Paw.
- My day job is in OSX so, Paw user checking in. Very nice UI…
Insomnia or just plain old cURL
Curl. Especially as Firefox' network tab lets me copy every request in curl format. I only use postman for complex POST/PUT/PATCH requests. I've used httpie in the past.
I’ve recently been looking at Hopscotch: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
But the free version of Postman seems to offer everything we’d want.
I sometimes use Advanced Rest Client (ARC).
Heard about hoppscotch, that can be used with proxyscotch
- We're been looking at hoppscotch mainly for the ability to collaborate and store everything on site.
rest.nvim with neovim
SoapUI open source version works pretty well and does not require a logon to save your projects
I don't really use any tool. For my stuff I use FastAPI which generates swagger UI, and when troubleshooting I interact that way.
And which ones handle injecting base 64 encoded file content (100MB) into the json body well? I've been using SoapSonar, but I'm having issues with this at the moment.
Paw (native MacOS app)
Little Faraday scripts
https://github.com/lostisland/faraday
Depends on what tests I want to do. Sometimes I just make a python script.
FF devtools
When you add swagger to your services, you don't need rest clients

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