Just recently fired Postman back up and it’s so different now. Finding it difficult to find my way around when all I want to do is just send a request.
I haven’t used it as much in the last 3 years just because I’ve mostly been building APIs that expose a Swagger UI, but I definitely remember the UI being much simpler back then.
Have y’all moved on to different solutions? If so which ones are you using?
EDIT
I’ve been going through the suggestions, here’s the list of suggestions in order of most times suggested or number of points on the comment:
purplepudding ( @purplepudding@sopuli.xyz ) 59•1 year agoInsomnia is a bit more like classic postman, though it’s kinda heading the same way too.
Ended up falling back to cURL and shell history for REST stuffs a lot of the time.
I think I remember insomnia being a pretty popular alternative when I first picked up Postman. Never gave it a chance but maybe now it’s the time to switch.
Durotar ( @Durotar@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year agoAt least it’s open-source, so it’s hard for them to destroy the product completely.
mark ( @mark@programming.dev ) 5•1 year agoYeah works amazingly well on Linux too
sirdorius ( @sirdorius@programming.dev ) 28•1 year agoEnshittification.
I just switched to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client a few years ago. Way better, simpler, easily version controlled and reviewed, completely FOSS. Only downside is it’s just for VSCode, if that’s not your thing
beaker ( @beaker@programming.dev ) 25•1 year agoWe made the decision yesterday to dump Postman in favor of Thunder Client. As soon as I saw the push to create an account and use cloud workspaces, I knew the time would come.
(edit: correct styling of Thunder Client)
kisor ( @attn_dfct_dev@programming.dev ) 7•1 year agoThunderclient
Looks great, thanks for the rec.
seaneoo ( @seaneoo@kbin.social ) 6•1 year agoI’ve never heard of Thunder Client but it looks really interesting
prwnr ( @prwnr@programming.dev ) 24•1 year agocheck out this topic here: https://programming.dev/post/435823 where I asked question about postman alternatives not so long ago. Tons of suggestions!
Perfect! There’s definitely a lot of good suggestions there.
I’m just so disappointed to see Postman trying to become a more “enterprise” solution.
prwnr ( @prwnr@programming.dev ) 2•1 year agowell, cause that’s where the most money comes from I guess
Midas ( @midas@ymmel.nl ) 18•1 year agoThat’s stupid money for an api testing tool lmao
stardust ( @stardust@lemm.ee ) 24•1 year agoValued at 5.6 billion dollars. Investors are fucking idiots.
sup ( @sup@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year agoAnd that’s putting it lightly
Fenzik ( @Fenzik@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year agoA tale as old as tech
thicket ( @thicket@programming.dev ) 18•1 year ago+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money
stackPeek ( @stackPeek@kbin.social ) 16•1 year agoI’m very very surprised nobody has recommended hoppscotch.io yet
mark ( @mark@programming.dev ) 7•1 year agoHmm cloud-based solutions for this scare me. But ok if open source.
stackPeek ( @stackPeek@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agoI could be wrong but I don’t think hoppscotch.io is cloud based. CMIIW
tsuni ( @tsuni@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year agoHoppscotch is such an amazing project. It’s open source, selfhostable, a PWA, and does pretty much everything I used Postman for. easily best alternative for me
𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( @lemann@lemmy.one ) 10•1 year agoThis kind of thing led me to disabling feature updates on my older Postman installs, and switching to Insomnia as a replacement on systems that don’t have Postman
It has a similar look to the classic postman. I’m just hoping they don’t go the same way postman did if they end up with big investors and ridiculous valuations.
Whayle ( @Whayle@kbin.social ) 9•1 year agoIf you use vscode, you might look at the thunderclient extension.
Oh this looks promising! Thanks!
charlieb ( @charlieb@kbin.social ) 7•1 year agoInsomnia has that classic postman feel, but personally I switched to hurl ( https://hurl.dev/ ) I really like how simple it is once it’s setup.
fogetaboutit ( @fogetaboutit@programming.dev ) 6•1 year agotime to switch to insomnia my friend!
agilob ( @agilob@programming.dev ) 5•1 year agoYou probably want this now https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client
Thanks for the suggestion I’ll try it out!
expr ( @expr@programming.dev ) 3•1 year agoI’ve always used and will continue to always use curl.
Midas ( @midas@ymmel.nl ) 2•1 year agoYep started using https://hoppscotch.io it’s basically a clone
reverendsteveii ( @reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year agoIve been using something called Insomnia lately. It’s a bit less fully-featured when it comes to things like env vars, but I love that I can copy any call from my browser’s network tab as a curl command and just paste it right into insomnia