4 ms·

A lot of people here have been mentioning Postman but my personal go-to has been Advanced Rest Client [1]. It's open source, has Google Drive integration, and s

by foob 10y ago

A lot of people here have been mentioning Postman but my personal go-to has been Advanced Rest Client [1]. It's open source, has Google Drive integration, and seems to have a pretty impressive development rate. For me, it's a definite plus that there isn't a paid tier so the developers don't have any incentive to limit the free product. That said, Insomnia looks like a nice contender and I look forward to giving it a shot. The reuse of variables across requests and the automatic generation of boilerplate request code both look like really nice features that ARC lacks! [1] https://advancedrestclient.com/ https://advancedrestclient.com/

hobarrera 10y ago
For me, it's a shame it's a chrome app, rather than a plain ol'd desktop app. Having to fire up chromium to run something this simple seems like an overkill.
gschier 10y ago
Ya, ARC is a pretty good one! Have you heard how the developer is handling the announcement of the shutdown of Chrome apps in 2017? Curious if they'll hop on the Electron bandwagon too.
- jarrodek 10y ago
  As an author of the ARC. I'm considering using electron and move to native apps and discontinuing Chrome integration. But right now I'm not focusing on it. At the end of last year when I started moving the old app to new packaged apps platform I already knew that some changes are necessary and I started to modularize the app into web components (using Polymer framework) to be able to relatively fast move to another platforms with minimal change in the code. So UI components are using web only features, app logic only javascript and non-chrome related APIs and finally Chrome related components that can be easily replaced by other platform's implementation. So eventually (this is ongoing task) I'll be able to move pretty much any web environment.
- nnain 10y ago
  Yup, ARC is good and open source! This blogpost explains its update to Chrome 'packaged app' - https://restforchrome.blogspot.in/2016/04/new-advanced-rest-client-chrome-app.html https://restforchrome.blogspot.in/2016/04/new-advanced-rest-...

by foob 10y ago

hobarrera 10y ago

For me, it's a shame it's a chrome app, rather than a plain ol'd desktop app. Having to fire up chromium to run something this simple seems like an overkill.

gschier 10y ago

Ya, ARC is a pretty good one! Have you heard how the developer is handling the announcement of the shutdown of Chrome apps in 2017? Curious if they'll hop on the Electron bandwagon too.

jarrodek 10y ago
As an author of the ARC. I'm considering using electron and move to native apps and discontinuing Chrome integration. But right now I'm not focusing on it. At the end of last year when I started moving the old app to new packaged apps platform I already knew that some changes are necessary and I started to modularize the app into web components (using Polymer framework) to be able to relatively fast move to another platforms with minimal change in the code. So UI components are using web only features, app logic only javascript and non-chrome related APIs and finally Chrome related components that can be easily replaced by other platform's implementation. So eventually (this is ongoing task) I'll be able to move pretty much any web environment.
nnain 10y ago
Yup, ARC is good and open source! This blogpost explains its update to Chrome 'packaged app' - https://restforchrome.blogspot.in/2016/04/new-advanced-rest-client-chrome-app.html https://restforchrome.blogspot.in/2016/04/new-advanced-rest-...