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?
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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:
This so much. Nothing worse than when a niche service emails you or push notifications you to use something you only need to use when you have a very specific need to haha.
Hoppscotch 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
I tried postman and came to the same conclusion as you. I couldn’t figure it out at all. I downloaded an app for android called “ApI Tester”. I might try out ThunderClient, which others have suggested, if it works on Linux.
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.
This 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.
Ive 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
We 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.
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Insomnia 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.
This looks really nice. Thanks for posting it.
Stopped using it when they started sending me emails every fucking day.
I’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I WANT TO TEST AN API THANKS
This so much. Nothing worse than when a niche service emails you or push notifications you to use something you only need to use when you have a very specific need to haha.
I’m very very surprised nobody has recommended hoppscotch.io yet
Hoppscotch 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
I do like that, thanks for sharing. I’ll check ot out.
Hmm cloud-based solutions for this scare me. But ok if open source.
I could be wrong but I don’t think hoppscotch.io is cloud based. CMIIW
I tried postman and came to the same conclusion as you. I couldn’t figure it out at all. I downloaded an app for android called “ApI Tester”. I might try out ThunderClient, which others have suggested, if it works on Linux.
If you use vscode, you might look at the thunderclient extension.
Oh this looks promising! Thanks!
Insomnia 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.
At least it’s open-source, so it’s hard for them to destroy the product completely.
Yeah works amazingly well on Linux too
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.
Seems investors are to blame…
That’s stupid money for an api testing tool lmao
Valued at 5.6 billion dollars. Investors are fucking idiots.
And that’s putting it lightly
A tale as old as tech
time to switch to insomnia my friend!
You probably want this now https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client
+1, has dot env file support so you can commit your rest experiments to your repo without worrying about exposing auth secrets
Thanks for the suggestion I’ll try it out!
This 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
https://insomnia.rest (GitHub)
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.
Ive 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
https://insomnia.rest/ I’ve been using insomnia and it’s been pretty great for the most part.
This seems to be one of the most popular alternatives now.
I never gave it a chance but maybe now’s the time to switch.
We 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)
Looks great, thanks for the rec.
I’ve never heard of Thunder Client but it looks really interesting
+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money
Yep started using https://hoppscotch.io it’s basically a clone