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any Insomnia alternatives which are not Postman? I need rest and graphql support.
Insomnia is getting worse and worse and I'm worried it won't be better.
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have recently tried Bruno, but it lacked some basic UI features I use regularly, like file picker UI for uploading a multipart file.

I also gave Recipe Ul a look, but I did not see an option to switch environments. (Haven't installed it and tried it, just went through the docs)

So I settled on Hopsscotch. Though their desktop UI is still in alpha, it looked good to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you self host hopscotch?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, I am trying out their desktop app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Huh, I guess there have been some changes since I've last checked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Check out Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/

I switched to it from insomnia and it has been pretty decent once I got used to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@Daveofthenorth thanks. I'll check this soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Insomnia's source code is FOSS, there are forks since the company's recent changes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Engine search "insomnium" (like codium for vscode), there are multiple. This is the first result.

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: [email protected], [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with postman?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You can just use normal .http files. There’s support in all jetbrains products, vs code, visual studio, jetbrains even wrote a cli tool for it. https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/07/04/http-client-tools-everywhere/

https://kenslearningcurve.com/tutorials/test-an-api-by-using-http-files-in-vscode/

The nice thing about http files is that you’re never going to be locked into some company’s standard. They’re literally all just plain text files.

MS is trying to create a standard. https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/29431

There’s also https://httpyac.github.io though I’ve never heard of anyone using it.

Anyway, moving away from these proprietary separate HTTP/REST call products is a good thing. Postman really led the enshittification in this area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: [email protected], [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is the problem with insomnia?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They recently introduced an account requirement, which is a no-go for me.

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago