Ask HN: Nice alternatives to Postman?

  • Bruno is a FOSS alternative, it is an Electron app, but widely used already: https://www.usebruno.com/downloads

    What I like about it that requests are defined in a simple markup language called "Bru" and stores as simple text files, you can easily throw them around.

  • This completely depends on your use-case, but I've personally found that the edit and re-send [1] features of Firefox are enough for my purposes most of the time.

    [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/networ...

  • Currently using Insomnium [1], a fork of Insomnia before the login demands. Most likely found it here at HN [2] and decided to try it out.

    [1] https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

    [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

  • HTTPie is a good alternative. Check it out here https://httpie.io/

  • Insomnia is a Postman alternative: https://insomnia.rest/

  • I like restclient. There's no UI, just .http files with a simple format for describing requests. there's a version for emacs and vscode that are mostly interoperable.

  • I would say use insomnia but itโ€™s going down the same path as postman. There are some nice VSCode extensions that integrate a REST client directly into the editor.

  • Enjoy it while it lasts: https://paw.cloud/. Really good.

  • Not native, but Thunder Client is a VS Code extension that I've found pretty handy.

  • Yaak, made by the original maker of Insomnia.

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