What alternative to 'postman' are you using?

3 years ago by NeoNachtwaechter to c/technology

What alternative to 'postman' do you like the most for simply testing a bunch of REST services?

sanimalp 68 points 3 years ago

Insomnia user checking in..

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kamiheku 8 points 3 years ago

Same, although it has been getting shittier and shittier.

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domi 3 points 3 years ago

How so? I recently switched to it from Postman and haven't heard much negative about it yet.

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kamiheku 10 points 3 years ago

Don't get me wrong, it's still pretty good and I do prefer it to Postman. I just dislike the amount of extra features and weird Insomnia account stuff they have been adding the past few years. When it first came out I loved it for its simplicity, and I feel like that's being lost.

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Gnubyte 1 point 3 years ago

Never hurts to have a good fork or clone of it lying around somewhere ;-)

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zobier 2 points 3 years ago

i use insomnia as well

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Robertej92 28 points 3 years ago

Until I saw the sub I thought this was going to be a question about what to call the postal officer now that we live in a modern society where women are trusted to stuff letterboxes as well as men. Postie is of course the answer to that.

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ethman42 7 points 3 years ago

I go with mail carrier. Then again, the man in postman is supposedly from the old English “mann” which just meant person.

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Case 3 points 3 years ago

I refer to mine with much ruder terms, but she often misses deliveries, so yeah.

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SkaveRat 1 point 3 years ago

Relevant SMBC

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w2qw 20 points 3 years ago

curl?

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wernsting 12 points 3 years ago

I’ll use REST Client in visual studio code when working on Azure functions etc

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hornedfiend 7 points 3 years ago

I use Thunder client in VSC.

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namelivia 10 points 3 years ago

Curl

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z3rOR0ne 2 points 3 years ago

Same. Just curl. Good enough.

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EmasXP 8 points 3 years ago

HTTPie

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Madeyro 5 points 3 years ago

This looks very good. Thanks for sharing.

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gravitas_deficiency 8 points 3 years ago

Curl. Or if I need to chain stuff together for auth reasons or whatever, sometimes ill just pop into a python virtualenv and use requests

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sknowmads 8 points 3 years ago

Why switch? Postman is still my go-to

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NeoNachtwaechter 32 points 3 years ago

I want it free and open source and easy.

They are getting more and more agressive with their paid services and so my guts have informed me that the end is near ;-)

I have seen the same happening with Soapui before: suddenly nobody was using it anymore.

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smallflag4168 7 points 3 years ago

Oh god, I have to use SoapUI at work occasionally, and I hate it so much.

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lazynooblet 5 points 3 years ago

I rolled back to the previous version and deleted update.exe

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Potatos_are_not_friends 1 point 3 years ago

Same.

Maybe my usecases are extremely basic. And all their Pro features are just bells and whistles that doesn't affect me but I hope someone does find value out of it.

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Gnubyte 8 points 3 years ago

Insomnia.rest generally is my tool: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

Thunder Client if you like to keep all the relevant requests n data inside the project directory, probably good for teams: https://open-vsx.org/...

With VS-Codium (vscode with the microsoft telemetry scraped out): https://vscodium.com/

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starman 8 points 3 years ago

Sometimes swagger UI

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voidentropy 6 points 3 years ago

https://hurl.dev is pretty sweet.

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soda3x 5 points 3 years ago

Hoppscotch.io works a treat

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Aux 5 points 3 years ago

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Andreas_ 3 points 3 years ago

Same here, absolutely love being able to write HTTP requests like code! With the auto completion I’m 10x faster writing requests than using Postman or Insomnia. You can define multiple requests in one file and execute them like a script. There’s also a templating feature which you can use for different environments.

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orclev 5 points 3 years ago

I used to use Paw, but it's only available on OS X. It's a shame because it has the single best variable/templating system I've ever used. Since I prefer a cross platform and ideally open source solution though I've switched to Insomnia. It's not quite as good as Paw, but I can actually use it on Windows and Linux unlike Paw.

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cevn 2 points 3 years ago

My day job is in OSX so, Paw user checking in. Very nice UI…

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tiny 4 points 3 years ago

Thunderclient for vscodium

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sndrtj 3 points 3 years ago

Curl. Especially as Firefox' network tab lets me copy every request in curl format. I only use postman for complex POST/PUT/PATCH requests. I've used httpie in the past.

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Brisolo32 3 points 3 years ago

Insomnia or just plain old cURL

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jabberati 3 points 3 years ago

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hornedfiend 2 points 3 years ago

I sometimes use Advanced Rest Client (ARC).

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XpeeN 2 points 3 years ago

Heard about hoppscotch, that can be used with proxyscotch

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busydoinnothin 2 points 3 years ago

We're been looking at hoppscotch mainly for the ability to collaborate and store everything on site.

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shinobizilla 2 points 3 years ago

rest.nvim with neovim

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oddsys 2 points 3 years ago

SoapUI open source version works pretty well and does not require a logon to save your projects

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cpressland 2 points 3 years ago

I’ve recently been looking at Hopscotch: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

But the free version of Postman seems to offer everything we’d want.

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ictinus 1 point 3 years ago

And which ones handle injecting base 64 encoded file content (100MB) into the json body well? I've been using SoapSonar, but I'm having issues with this at the moment.

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dingleberry 1 point 3 years ago

Paw (native MacOS app)

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Synthead 1 point 3 years ago

Little Faraday scripts

https://github.com/lostisland/faraday

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takeda 1 point 3 years ago

I don't really use any tool. For my stuff I use FastAPI which generates swagger UI, and when troubleshooting I interact that way.

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520 1 point 3 years ago

Depends on what tests I want to do. Sometimes I just make a python script.

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movie 0 points 3 years ago

FF devtools

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DeriHunter -2 points 3 years ago

When you add swagger to your services, you don't need rest clients

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