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GitHub API Authentication using OAuth 2.0

66 points by gschier 9y ago

nbrempel 9y ago
I'm seriously impressed with how useful Insomnia has become in my workflow. It goes to show how valuable a well designed user experience can be. It's not the only available API testing tool, but it's by far the most productive tool to use in my opinion.
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- kossae 9y ago
  If you've tried Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/ https://www.getpostman.com/), how would you say Insomnia is better?
  - nbrempel 9y ago
    The differences are subtle but I would boil it down to attention to detail. The user experience is excellent.
    - kermire 9y ago
      I agree. The UI is so much better and more streamlined. I was also using Postman before I found this. It's really useful.
  - lstamour 9y ago
    Insomnia’s open source. You’d be surprised at how much of a difference this can make, if you’re a developer :)
  - Belphemur 9y ago
    Insomnia is great for single user. But for teams, synchronizing their different request. It was a mess with insomnia couple of versions ago. But the product improves really fast and I won't be surprised in couple of month it will have reproduced most of the strength of Postman. For now, I'll still stick to postman.
    - gschier 9y ago
      If you could send in any feedback you have on the sync features, that would help a lot! :D ~ Gregory
hosay123 9y ago
This is so important it deserves its own article
akerl_ 9y ago
Semi-offtopic: I was looking at Insomnia's pricing after reading this post, and was initially confused by the "Plus" feature-list, which includes a flat bulleted list containing "Data backup and sync" and "End-to-end encryption", among other things. My initial read didn't connect these two points as a single entity ("Data backups/syncing that use E2E"), so it seemed like the free version lacked support for some encryption of API activity? I'm not immediately sure how I'd amend the list to fix it, other than perhaps nesting "E2E" and "unlimited devices" under the syncing rather than using a flat list. It's worth noting that when I had this confusion, I clicked to the "Plus" page which cleared up my questions, but obviously it's not ideal for the pricing page to require that kind of clarification.
- gschier 9y ago
  That's really great feedback, thanks! I'll see if I can come up with any ideas on how to clarify this.
manyxcxi 9y ago
Just reading this on my phone, I have yet to try it. Anyone out there with experience, how does it compare to Paw for OS X? I moved from Postman and cURL to Paw because of the ability to take response fields as inputs to other requests mostly, but I've found it to be very pleasing to work with.
- gschier 9y ago
  I added the ability to reference other response fields a few releases ago. As the developer, I'm obviously biased, but here are a few advantaged of Insomnia. (1) It's open source, (2) it's cross-platform, (3) the UI is simpler and easier to use (subjective). Since Paw is a much more mature project, it has more features (so does Postman) but, if you don't need them, Insomnia is very comparable. https://insomnia.rest/documentation/request-chaining/ https://insomnia.rest/documentation/request-chaining/

66 points by gschier 9y ago

I'm seriously impressed with how useful Insomnia has become in my workflow. It goes to show how valuable a well designed user experience can be. It's not the only available API testing tool, but it's by far the most productive tool to use in my opinion.

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kossae 9y ago
If you've tried Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/ https://www.getpostman.com/), how would you say Insomnia is better?
- nbrempel 9y ago
  The differences are subtle but I would boil it down to attention to detail. The user experience is excellent.
  - kermire 9y ago
    I agree. The UI is so much better and more streamlined. I was also using Postman before I found this. It's really useful.
- lstamour 9y ago
  Insomnia’s open source. You’d be surprised at how much of a difference this can make, if you’re a developer :)
- Belphemur 9y ago
  Insomnia is great for single user. But for teams, synchronizing their different request. It was a mess with insomnia couple of versions ago. But the product improves really fast and I won't be surprised in couple of month it will have reproduced most of the strength of Postman. For now, I'll still stick to postman.
  - gschier 9y ago
    If you could send in any feedback you have on the sync features, that would help a lot! :D ~ Gregory

hosay123 9y ago

This is so important it deserves its own article

akerl_ 9y ago

Semi-offtopic: I was looking at Insomnia's pricing after reading this post, and was initially confused by the "Plus" feature-list, which includes a flat bulleted list containing "Data backup and sync" and "End-to-end encryption", among other things. My initial read didn't connect these two points as a single entity ("Data backups/syncing that use E2E"), so it seemed like the free version lacked support for some encryption of API activity? I'm not immediately sure how I'd amend the list to fix it, other than perhaps nesting "E2E" and "unlimited devices" under the syncing rather than using a flat list. It's worth noting that when I had this confusion, I clicked to the "Plus" page which cleared up my questions, but obviously it's not ideal for the pricing page to require that kind of clarification.

gschier 9y ago
That's really great feedback, thanks! I'll see if I can come up with any ideas on how to clarify this.

manyxcxi 9y ago

Just reading this on my phone, I have yet to try it. Anyone out there with experience, how does it compare to Paw for OS X? I moved from Postman and cURL to Paw because of the ability to take response fields as inputs to other requests mostly, but I've found it to be very pleasing to work with.

gschier 9y ago
I added the ability to reference other response fields a few releases ago. As the developer, I'm obviously biased, but here are a few advantaged of Insomnia. (1) It's open source, (2) it's cross-platform, (3) the UI is simpler and easier to use (subjective). Since Paw is a much more mature project, it has more features (so does Postman) but, if you don't need them, Insomnia is very comparable. https://insomnia.rest/documentation/request-chaining/ https://insomnia.rest/documentation/request-chaining/