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People may be taking your comment as general knee-jerk electron hate but it really is something to consider. If you're sending requests that can return very lo
by milesokeefe 9y ago
People may be taking your comment as general knee-jerk electron hate but it really is something to consider.
If you're sending requests that can return very long json responses, Insomnia can lock up and force you to restart it.
Paw is a pretty good native alternative but it's macOS only, doesn't have a free tier beyond a short trial period, and has some UI quirks that made me ultimately go back to Insomnia despite the electron borne downsides.
If Insomnia could offload the request response parsing/formatting to a WebAssembly module it would be perfect.
- Cyberdog 9y agoI'm seeing that a fair number of posts in this comment thread say "I've had Insomnia and/or Postman freeze/lock up/crash with large responses." I can't recall ever having a problem with curl and a large response. Yes, these others are probably doing something like parsing the response and making it pretty and that's where the problem is. But just sayin'. (Also, most of the time, curl's memory usage can be measured in kilobytes. Again, just sayin'.)