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Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time. Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account. When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else.
All I have is a 'history' to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup.
I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything. Beware!
Update: I was able to manually import/restore using a backup I found in ~/.config/Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool. Any alternatives that I can migrate to?
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- james-revisoai 3y agoThis happened to me 2 years ago, I think it has always been a bit of an issue.
- mtmail 3y agoSo they quickly followed what their competitor Insomnia did recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326
- richbell 3y agoPostman did it first, unless I'm missing something.
- skeeter2020 3y agoyep, Insomnia was the alternative to Postman, now the cycle continues...
- whaleofatw2022 3y agoWhich is kinda interesting, in that I know folks who started using Insomnia because postman started enshittification first... Sad Insomnia made it a race
- helloanoop 3y agoIs there a duopoly play happening here?
- helloanoop 3y agoReminds me of Dark - "The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end." – Adam Hope Bruno will deliver us from this never-ending cycle.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoPostman is rolling out updates over time, for many people they only saw the changes now, a couple weeks after the roll-out started.
- enraged_camel 3y agoInsomnia doesn’t wipe out your stuff if you don’t create an account though.
- mrguyorama 3y agoPlenty of users reported that updating, being prompted to create an account, and then refusing denied them access to their requests.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoI have found Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) to be a decent basic alternative with a nice bonus of being version control friendly, keep in mind that it's fresh and relatively unpolished though - for instance it doesn't ask you to save changes before closing the app.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.usebruno.com/ https://www.usebruno.com/ Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701803
- redox99 3y agoThis one is free from VC funding and promises to stay away from it. So it should not suffer from enshittification. See https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269 https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoThe one thing I'm afraid of is that it's a single maintainer project, and while they are active now, I'm not sure how this is going to fare in a few months or so.
- helloanoop 3y agoI've been at this for 2 years. The project got visibility very recently. The code is MIT. I look forward to do this for a long long time.
- dheerajvs 3y agoGlad to see alternatives but disappointed that Bruno does not support OpenAPI specification. At my company, we hand-edit OpenAPI specs in YAML and it gets consumed by many tools that generate types[0], static analysis and dynamic checks[1]. The OpenAPI spec itself is linted[2]. And of course, Postman consumes OpenAPI. Tools that are built on open standards will naturally see greater adoption over those that use proprietary formats. [0]: https://openapi-ts.pages.dev https://openapi-ts.pages.dev [1]: https://openapi-enforcer.com https://openapi-enforcer.com [2]: https://stoplight.io/open-source/spectral https://stoplight.io/open-source/spectral
- ok_dad 3y agoLearn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
- mplewis 3y agoCurl is not sufficient for rapid experimentation against an API.
- worksonmine 3y agoDepends how comfortable you are with curl and your workflow. I'm much more productive using curl vs any GUI you give me. Still have OpenAPI specs in my projects but curl is much faster initially.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoIt falls apart instantly when you need to pass data from one endpoint to another or add any sort of logic like filtering through data - so any time you have non-trivial workloads where you don't want to spend half your time fighting against jq or shell.
- ok_dad 3y agoYou don’t have to fight tools if you learn them, but I understand— as a fellow programmer— that you don’t always have time to learn them. However, it’s pretty easy to use pipes and tools like jq to do complex stuff.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoWhile jq is powerful and I use it in scripts, it's one of the least intuitive languages I use, to the point I have to look up basically everything non-trivial.
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- mjepronk 3y agoHttpyac, to install the VS Code extension, just do: ext install anweber.vscode-httpyac
- some_guy_in_ca 3y agoI love HttpYac. I use it all day every day. I stopped using Postman years ago because it got too bloated an "enterprisy". Also the fact that it syncs all my stuff to the cloud across many consulting clients is a no go. Passwords and other stuff means it is a target for hackers. Postman is a great product don't get me wrong but my specific use case are around HTTP testing and I want to check everything into version control
- vorpalhex 3y agoPostWoman (now called Hopscotch) is a foss clone of (possibly an older version) Postman if you want a 1:1. https://hoppscotch.io/ https://hoppscotch.io/ If you want "curl but friendly", I like httpie - https://httpie.io/cli https://httpie.io/cli
- joe8756438 3y agoFor the emacs users: restclient.el It’s excellent. Doesn’t have server mocking AFAIK, :shrug:
- trey-jones 3y agoI really like restclient - also really makes sense for persisting tests in this manner to source control. Not that anybody else on your team will know how to use it...
- imp0cat 3y agoAnother vote for spacemacs + restclient: https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+tools/restclient/README.html https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+tools/restclient/READM...
- liyasthomas 3y agoWe’re building an open-source Postman alternative. 1.6m+ users, 100k+ monthly active users, 55k+ GitHub stars. Web app: https://hoppscotch.io https://hoppscotch.io GitHub: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
- BoorishBears 3y agoBut you raised VC funding right? Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory. Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react. Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figured out some monetization scheme for what is essentially a glorified curl UI that doesn't incentivize account sign ups?
- bobobob420 3y agoPostman is also open source lol. Unless its donation driven without funding its all going to be the same.
- Firmwarrior 3y agoCan't someone just locally fork one of these apps and use it forever without updating it? What's actually different about manually poking APIs from one week to the next?
- OJFord 3y agoWell even curl has a high severity CVE pending announcement, updates aren't always bad! https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1709103920914526525 https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1709103920914526525
- BoorishBears 3y agoDid you read my comment? (Also Postman is not open source, it just has some open source pieces)
- taesu 3y agoThis is how you kill a product. Ill be jumping ship too
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, it happened to me as well. Fortunately I regularly export the collections that still matter. Now I am no longer a Postman user, as due to NDA's we aren't allowed to store project data on them. Paying was never an issue, not having a secure alternative is what killed it for us.
- SoftTalker 3y agoDo you use emacs? Have a look at https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el or similar.
- tsuru 3y agoOr org+verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb
- SoftTalker 3y agoThat does look a bit more recent.
- floucky 3y agoI'm sure it's a bug, they have nothing to gain from it, especially if there's no warning about this. It's also a good reminder for everyone to back up everything!
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoIt's not a bug to release a version which removed a massive chunk of functionality. It's intentionally fucking over their users who are not willing to create an account.
- dannydainton 3y ago[flagged]
- david422 3y agoSame. Quite a surprise. I switched to IntelliJ http requests and am seeing how that does for me.
- CommonGuy 3y agoAs one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app https://kreya.app. It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally. As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.
- hummusFiend 3y agoKreya is the only alternative I've used that prioritizes gRPC support (along with REST). Regardless of source availability, thank you for creating this!
- CommonGuy 3y agoThanks for the kind words!
- dannydainton 3y agoThere's also gRPC support in Postman's signed out version.
- SamuelAdams 3y agoAny chance this can be made available via homebrew? Also, are there telemetry settings I can configure? I frequently work in HIPAA and DoD environments, so the less telemetry tools send the happier those sysadmins are.
- CommonGuy 3y agoHomebrew "support" (and other package managers) is planned. Telemetry is opt-out and anonymous. More about what is collected and how to disable here: https://kreya.app/docs/telemetry/ https://kreya.app/docs/telemetry/
- masukomi 3y agoanother alternative: RapidAPI https://rapidapi.com/ https://rapidapi.com/ it's a good api client, and it's free for individual use and they have some sort of nifty marketplace integration catalog...thing with remote API servers that makes it easy to find and try API services that offer data / functionality you want to connect to.
- gkedzierski 3y agoIt was great before it got acquired, (and was called Paw back then) now the product development has virtually stopped.
- kstrauser 3y agoI’ve used that for years, from back when it was the paid Paw app, and I’ve been happy with it.
- blahyawnblah 3y agoI've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/ https://httpie.io/ Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
- eddd-ddde 3y agoOn windows I even got to enjoy using Invoke-WebRequest directly. Extremely useful since powershell has structured output and input.
- kritr 3y agoI also found it surprisingly how pleasant this was. For all Powershell’s quirks, this is one of those features that just makes sense to me.
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- weinzierl 3y agoI almost ignored HTTPie as a Postman alternative because I thought it was CLI only but learned that it has a GUI now. Unfortunately the GUI seems to be proprietary. Also we were looking for HTTP/2 support which neither Postman not HTTPie have and found xh which is a HTTPie clone in Rust.
- chasd00 3y agoi really like httpie, i didn't know they had an application coming out. This is good stuff.
- Jaygles 3y agoAfter the whiffs of enshittification caught my nose I did some research and switched over to Insomnia. I don’t make use of any advanced features, just a pre request authentication call that was a little bit of a pain to set up. But it’s working exactly how I was using postman so it’s a suitable replacement for me
- CommonGuy 3y agoDidn't they just push a similar update where they require an account? And pushed all data into their cloud sync without asking?
- Jaygles 3y agoWhen I switched over they made it clear they were getting rid of offline mode. So I said whiffs but at that point there was a turd halfway up my nose
- pests 3y agoThere are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data. Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Syntax looks like: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name": "sample", "time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT" }
- S04dKHzrKT 3y agoJetbrains IDEs also have builtin support for HTTP files. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/10/intellij-idea-2023-3-eap-3/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/10/intellij-idea-2023-3... https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.ht...
- e-master 3y agoI use it too - it’s excellent, I’d think most developers don’t need more than this.
- progre 3y agoYep, me to. Since it's just textfiles I can have them checked into git and share them. Credentials stays in a separate environments file (not checked in). I'm pretty happy with this setup.
- skeeter2020 3y agoI use the VS Code REST extension a lot but it does lack some of the aspects that make Postman easier for teams and larger projects. It's super easy to define a "collection" as an .http page for smaller and one-off needs though.
- Octabrain 3y agoI use this one for tests on microservices endpoints. Very good at least for my use case. I recommend it.
- cellis 3y agoPaw (now RapidAPI) is a very good alternative, though I can't say they wont be under the same capitalist pressures as Postman. I paid $50, one time. https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/ Edit: To be clear it's an app (downloadable client), despite the url.
- jpalawaga 3y agoI'm not sure why you're downvoted. I still use paw/rapidapi and I think it's great. Maybe downvoters can explain.
- aPoCoMiLogin 3y agothe mac client probably wont, as they were already bought by rapidapi.com and made web-based client that looks like PAW but has the same issues as other web-based solution
- eshack94 3y agoWhat a joke. Great reason to find a replacement tool.
- iLoveOncall 3y ago> Any alternatives that I can migrate to? If it works for your use case: writing integration tests. I used Postman in the past but I never really got the point of "storing" queries beyond the history. I think if you have that need it means it's time to write a frontend to call your endpoints, or use integration tests.
- kstrauser 3y agoI’ve used alternatives to explore under-documented APIs interactively and suss out their behavior. Then I could use the app’s codegen to turn the query I’d manually crafted into my chosen language’s code. You can do all that directly in the language, of course, but by the time you go through the trouble of pretty printing the output, parametrizing the input, etc, you’ve reimplemented a less ergonomic version of Postman-and-similar. (Not saying you’re wrong for doing it your way, but explaining why others might choose a different approach.)
- iLoveOncall 3y agoYes it's definitely not ideal for all situations, this is more for when you own the API.
- maniflames 3y agoI’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoSorry, but they pulled a Postman already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 No reason to trust them at all at this point.
- stronglikedan 3y agoWeird. Mine doesn't, and it's been 8 days since that post. I even checked for updates, and I'm up to date. Maybe they reverted their bone head move? (I don't use it daily) EDIT: Maybe they did. See last comment here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590 https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590
- byyll 3y agoIs it pulling a Postman if Insomnia did it first?
- stronglikedan 3y agoI lost everything in a update with them too. And not a create-account update. Just a regular update one day, and poof gone.
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- user3939382 3y agoHighly recommend the HTTP client in the JetBrains IDEs. I looked carefully at the standalones in this category and IMHO it’s the best. Text based so you can seamlessly manage everything with your repo, with automatic features built in from parsing the text.
- pletnes 3y agoYes! Postman is git-hostile i.e developer unfriendly.
- helloanoop 3y agoBruno is 'git-friendly' as well 'git-pr-flow-friendly' as well as 'developer-friendly' Checkout things that you can do in scripting in Bruno which no other client does - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/385 https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/385 You'll love it.
- user3939382 3y agoThis looks great. The JetBrains HTTP client also supports scripting, including pulling in npm packages.
- baq 3y agoAm I crazy for using curl and editing the shell cmdline with vim when I need to work with lots of headers?
- petepete 3y agoNo, but unless portability is a concern or you're massively familiar with curl, you might want to consider xh. It's much more intuitive. https://github.com/ducaale/xh https://github.com/ducaale/xh
- weinzierl 3y agoNo, I use curl similarly and a lot. Where I find Postman convenient is when using it against services that use OAuth2. You authenticate once, it fetches the token and you are good to go. Could I script this with curl? Sure. Do I want to? Nah.
- johnchristopher 3y agoThis can get old fast when debugging things and when piping through jless or something. Having a nice app that stores the request make it easier to come back too after a few days away. But Insomnia and others went wayyyyy overboard with all the sub sub sub projects. I'd like to have something in the middle.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoIs this all stuff that you had kept in your Scratchpad? I think Postman had been warning users for months that Scratchpad would be going away, and that you should migrate everything to a workspace. I'm not saying the decision is right; personally I much preferred the scratch, because it didn't require a freaking network request every time I want to look at my API collections. I'm just saying, this didn't come out of nowhere.
- mrguyorama 3y agoFYI some of our people internally use Jmeter. https://jmeter.apache.org/ https://jmeter.apache.org/ It's not flashy so it probably wont get the standard "we are going to milk you for data" plan
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoThe problem then is that you have to use jmeter, it's a great example of early 2000s java desktop app user experience.
- procflora 3y agoAnd if JMeter just isn't quite doing it for you, turn the dial back another few years and experience the joy of the MDI GUI provided by SoapUI. You too can experience the thrills of getting to tweak JVM memory options so it doesn't crash when you try to load a particularly large and unwieldly industry-specific WSDL for an interface standard that undergirds major national infrastructure. Oh and, it actually does do OpenAPI specs for REST and even mock services and all that, so I'm delighted to share that it's actually relevant to this post! :^) What are you waiting for?
- wg0 3y agoBruno is great. Offline. Open source.
- funvill 3y agoI been using 'Advanced Rest Client' (ARC) https://install.advancedrestclient.com/ https://install.advancedrestclient.com/ No accounts required, offline, open source, A little bloated using electron but its multiplatform and a desktop client.
- vorticalbox 3y agoIf you use vs code you can use thunder[0] [0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.vscode-thunder-client https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.v...
- robertlagrant 3y agoNot open source, though?
- zikang 3y agoCheck out https://recipeui.com https://recipeui.com! It’s an open source Postman alternative with TypeScript and autocomplete.
- pirsquare 3y agoWe need a free Postman replacement tool with Photopea business model that is driven by ads, not VC-funds.
- hbn 3y agoIs that what happened? I DO have an account (begrudgingly made because it doesn't just let you do a JSON export of your collections, you have to send it to the cloud and then download it for some baffling reason) and last time I opened it all of my environment variable values were wiped. I've been wanting to get off Postman for a while. It's so clunky these days, and they're shoving way too much shit in it that I don't care about.
- _the_inflator 3y agoI would really like to see Chrome offering an alternative to Postman. For me, it feels natural, to have everything in one place. What do others think?
- isodev 3y agoIf you’re on macOS, my preferred tool is Paw/Rapid API https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/
- aPoCoMiLogin 3y agoyeah, this one is the only thing that i'm missing after migration to linux box. the extensions and ability to write own extensions is very powerful, the speed and native UI were very welcomed, as postman and other electron based tools are just way too heavy for me.
- isodev 3y agoIndeed, it's very well-made and a “proper” macOS app—shortcuts, window management, sleeping in the dock and everything. My favourite aspect is that it supports both cloud and local projects. Local projects are single binary files which can be synced with iCloud/OneDrive/..., so it's really quite flexible.
- KomoD 3y agoNot very surprised, Postman has continued to get more bloated and pushy with accounts, I ended up just moving to Insomnia after using Postman for many many years. Edit: turns out Insomnia has enshittified too
- jphilip 3y agoI remember encountering Postman years ago when it was a chrome app where I'd fill some fields and use it against a server absent a frontend to prototype/test. I never understood what's the improvement from having a headless client written in Python using requests or something and the data in source-code, kept versioned? I figure requests or similar libraries have something with sessions and cookies that allows me to issue requests against an active or mock server. This way I can specify the API, data to send each endpoints and possibly also use these snippets in testing. I have usually taken this Python route when I've wanted something nicer (this is subjective) in comparison to cURL. Can someone experienced here tell me the value add over something like this with Postman?
- dannydainton 3y agoYour Scratch Pad data is safe and accessible. It can be Migrated to a new Workspace, once you create an account, using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Migrate data' menu option. Alternatively, it can be Exported from the Lightweight API Client(signed out version) using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Export data' menu options. You don't need to go searching for the data in your file systems.
- Veen 3y agoTop notch developer experience there, Danny. Well done.
- dannydainton 3y agoUmm, you're welcome. I'm just sharing information that the OP isn't actually true and no data is removed.
- 4lejandrito 3y agoI started building my own 100% local tool in response to the current situation with postman and insomnia: https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook I really liked Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) but I prefer the flexibility of a real language like typescript and the Request Web API standard.
- worksonmine 3y agoI'm surprised OpenAPI/Swagger hasn't been suggested. Define either as yaml or inline JsDoc comments if you're working in js/ts. I thought it was more popular than postman but I must be living in a bubble. Local, open source, versioned and can serve as interactive documentation for users. Never tried it personally but it can even generate code from the specs.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoMy main use case for postman like tools is to get me into the middle of a workflow to reproduce some sort of a scenario. Stateless tools just don't do it, as I need to spend a long time copying things around.
- worksonmine 3y agoSwagger and its derivatives support example requests and auth. How does postman do it differently I haven't used it in years?
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoAllows arbitrary scripts to save the context of requests. Hardcoded examples you can't change without committing in contract are not even close to that functionality.
- jicea 3y agoYou can give a try to Hurl [1], a CLI open source tool, based on plain text and curl. It allows you to run and test Rest/SOAP/GraphQL APIs (I'm one of the maintainer). There is no GUI, so Hurl is not a drop-in Postman replacement, but it has nice features: it can be easily integrated in CI/CD, it's fast and it's powered by curl! A detail: Hurl is given to the community by Orange, a French telco. Orange is not in the dev business, so it should remain free, open source, analytics free for a long time. In any case, you can easily convert Hurl files to JSON [2] in order to switch to another tool or not being trapped in a single provider... [1]: https://hurl.dev https://hurl.dev [2]: https://hurl.dev/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#how-can-i-use-my-hurl-files-outside-hurl https://hurl.dev/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#how-ca...
- alimbada 3y agoThis looks really slick. Thanks.
- tonfreed 3y agoCaught a workmate in my team out as well. We can't create accounts and keep it all in the cloud at our job, so we had to find an installer for an older version. Absolutely scummy behaviour
- helloanoop 3y agoTry Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project
- helloanoop 3y agoIt's like the Netflix series Dark. It's a cycle. Start API Client Traction VC Funding Bloatware Deprecate Scratchpad Delete Scratchpad Bruno will put an end to this. Honestly, I don't care if I end up making little money from Bruno. This shit has to stop. An API Client need not be VC funded. It's been a decade now. 10yrs.
- coldtrait 3y agoIs there a way to use an interceptor on this? With postman when I could use their interceptor extension on the browser, that would transfer cookies (from when I was logged into an app that was running locally) onto any of postman's requests. That was very convenient.
- helloanoop 3y agoThat's a great feature which we currently don't have. If you don't mind, it'd be great if you could outline your usecase on our GitHub issue tracker. On cookies, we are building UI support, meanwhile you can use scripting workaround described here https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/385#discussioncomment-7206789 https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/385#discussion...
- coldtrait 3y agoThank you. I will try to create one. Great effort btw. Awesome to see more open source projects from India.
- pseudalopex 3y agoFully offline is a lie. There is telemetry with no opt out.[1] And you should say lightweight compared to other Electron apps if you mean lightweight compared to other Electron apps.[2] [1] https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/337 https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/337 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37697206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37697206
- pipeline_peak 3y agoI can’t stand Postman, it’s just clunky in a distinctive Electron-powered way I can’t explain. I don’t get this new wave of dev tools that try to bypass programming but feel more complicated than just programming. The environment variable setting is weird, doesn’t handle /r/n without a plugin. Anytime I want to automate or do something slightly more complex than run a request it becomes a homework assignment. I’d much rather just use Python and work up a small library. Everyone has their own preferences in the end and it’s much less painful doing it my own way.
- moochee 3y agoI’d like to recommend Insomnium, a 100% local-first Insomnia fork. https://archgpt.dev/insomnium https://archgpt.dev/insomnium
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