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Looks useful. I really dislike the "Download Postman and then you will have documentation" approach. Documentation lives on the web, and there are better altern
by stevage 7y ago
Looks useful. I really dislike the "Download Postman and then you will have documentation" approach. Documentation lives on the web, and there are better alternatives to Postman anyway.
- Nezteb 7y agoI’m curious: what are your top alternatives to Postman?
- franky47 7y agoInsomnia [1] is a good one, it has all the necessary features to navigate REST APIs without the cloud clutter that comes with Postman. [1] https://insomnia.rest https://insomnia.rest
- X-Istence 7y agoPaw (https://paw.cloud https://paw.cloud) is my favourite.
- Madeindjs 7y agoRested (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rested/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rested/) which run as a browser extension.
- bovermyer 7y agocURL, with some bash aliases to help things along.
- fiveSpeedManual 7y agoI prefer this as well. Rather not go down the road of having examples for every major platform.
- deviantfero 7y agorestclient.el for emacs
- lymitshn 7y agohttps://postwoman.io/ https://postwoman.io/ is my fav. Works on browser no need to download an electron app to make requests. VS Code also has a nice extensions too.
- fiveSpeedManual 7y agoThanks for the feedback, I agree that the Postman approach may not be the best solution. I'll look into another way to display API docs!
- LadyCailin 7y agoI suggest swagger/openapi.