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Anyone know how this compares to Insomnia/Postman? Ever since Postman started getting worse I switched to Insomnia and haven't looked back.

rc_kas 7y ago
I am also a happy insomnia user.
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Justsignedup 7y ago
Insomnia is fantastic. Never looked back to postman.
wyattjoh 7y ago
It's GraphQL support is lovely.
toomuchtodo 7y ago
How does Insomnia compare to Paw [1]? [1] https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/
- frou_dh 7y ago
  That face-off could also serve as a case study of platform-native GUI (Paw) vs the much-maligned Electron (Insomnia, Postman).
  - zamadatix 7y ago
    I'd volunteer to do it but I don't own a Mac to find out how Paw is.
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    - cevn 7y ago
      It's really good. I wouldn't use anything else.
- gschier 7y ago
  Hi! Creator of Insomnia here :) The main differences are that Paw is a native Mac app, paid, and closed source. Insomnia is open source, cross-platform, and free to use (although there is a paid plan). Some of Insomnia's biggest differentiators are it's GraphQL query editor (autocomplete, linting, etc) and it's ability to be customized via plugins and themes.
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    Thank you for the reply!
  - rjbrock 7y ago
    GraphQL is the reason I just switched from a paid Paw license to insomnia!
chalst 7y ago
From https://dev.to/liyasthomas/i-created-postwoman-an-online-open-source-api-request-builder-41md https://dev.to/liyasthomas/i-created-postwoman-an-online-ope... the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app.
- reificator 7y ago
  > the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app. If an organization did this, I'd be all for it. An individual? I'd bet this is going to slow down updates to Chromium significantly, and eventually lead to either security issues or maintenance fatigue resulting in closure of the project. I'm not saying it's 100% going to happen like that, but that's on the wrong side of my risk tolerance line for adding a tool to my everyday suite.
  - gatherhunterer 7y ago
    It’s essentially an API testing tool. It is mostly used to poke endpoints on a development server and sometimes to learn the output patterns of a public API, what security concerns are there in stripping the UI?
    - reificator 7y ago
      It's less about the actual changes made and more that one person is maintaining a branch that diverges (significantly?) from upstream, on a project that is fast-paced and constantly under attack. If I'm using this tool to run tests on the network, and I'm several patches of Chromium behind, that makes me vulnerable. That tradeoff can be worth it, but all I'm getting out of it here is reduced application footprint? I'd rather use the bloated tools or wait for someone with deeper pockets to make a less bloated tool. Or a similarly small project that writes it natively.
  - yellowapple 7y ago
    I haven't exactly dug into the codebase, but "stripped down Chromium for the UI" could very well mean CEF, which is widely-used by a lot of things (commercial and otherwise) and directly supported by Google. However, whether that's more lightweight than Electron is debatable. If that concerns you, though (or if the author really did outright fork Chromium), it looks like it runs in an ordinary browser, too (e.g. via postwoman.io or localhost:3000).
house9-2 7y ago
Insomnia is great!
cmdshiftf4 7y ago
>Ever since Postman started getting worse I switched to Insomnia and haven't looked back. Curious to know what you feel as been getting worse with Postman? I'm a long time user of it myself and feel it has consistently done what it says it will do without much cruft.
- zip1234 7y ago
  Really like the simplicity of the testing integrated with it

rc_kas 7y ago

I am also a happy insomnia user.

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Justsignedup 7y ago

Insomnia is fantastic. Never looked back to postman.

wyattjoh 7y ago

It's GraphQL support is lovely.

toomuchtodo 7y ago

How does Insomnia compare to Paw [1]? [1] https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/

frou_dh 7y ago
That face-off could also serve as a case study of platform-native GUI (Paw) vs the much-maligned Electron (Insomnia, Postman).
- zamadatix 7y ago
  I'd volunteer to do it but I don't own a Mac to find out how Paw is.
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - cevn 7y ago
    It's really good. I wouldn't use anything else.
gschier 7y ago
Hi! Creator of Insomnia here :) The main differences are that Paw is a native Mac app, paid, and closed source. Insomnia is open source, cross-platform, and free to use (although there is a paid plan). Some of Insomnia's biggest differentiators are it's GraphQL query editor (autocomplete, linting, etc) and it's ability to be customized via plugins and themes.
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Thank you for the reply!
- rjbrock 7y ago
  GraphQL is the reason I just switched from a paid Paw license to insomnia!

chalst 7y ago

From https://dev.to/liyasthomas/i-created-postwoman-an-online-open-source-api-request-builder-41md https://dev.to/liyasthomas/i-created-postwoman-an-online-ope... the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app.

reificator 7y ago
> the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app. If an organization did this, I'd be all for it. An individual? I'd bet this is going to slow down updates to Chromium significantly, and eventually lead to either security issues or maintenance fatigue resulting in closure of the project. I'm not saying it's 100% going to happen like that, but that's on the wrong side of my risk tolerance line for adding a tool to my everyday suite.
- gatherhunterer 7y ago
  It’s essentially an API testing tool. It is mostly used to poke endpoints on a development server and sometimes to learn the output patterns of a public API, what security concerns are there in stripping the UI?
  - reificator 7y ago
    It's less about the actual changes made and more that one person is maintaining a branch that diverges (significantly?) from upstream, on a project that is fast-paced and constantly under attack. If I'm using this tool to run tests on the network, and I'm several patches of Chromium behind, that makes me vulnerable. That tradeoff can be worth it, but all I'm getting out of it here is reduced application footprint? I'd rather use the bloated tools or wait for someone with deeper pockets to make a less bloated tool. Or a similarly small project that writes it natively.
- yellowapple 7y ago
  I haven't exactly dug into the codebase, but "stripped down Chromium for the UI" could very well mean CEF, which is widely-used by a lot of things (commercial and otherwise) and directly supported by Google. However, whether that's more lightweight than Electron is debatable. If that concerns you, though (or if the author really did outright fork Chromium), it looks like it runs in an ordinary browser, too (e.g. via postwoman.io or localhost:3000).

house9-2 7y ago

Insomnia is great!

cmdshiftf4 7y ago

>Ever since Postman started getting worse I switched to Insomnia and haven't looked back. Curious to know what you feel as been getting worse with Postman? I'm a long time user of it myself and feel it has consistently done what it says it will do without much cruft.

zip1234 7y ago
Really like the simplicity of the testing integrated with it