any Insomnia alternatives which are not Postman? I need rest and graphql support. (mastodon.social)

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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.
#programming @python @golang
@opensource

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[-] Daveofthenorth@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] xsevy@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Daveofthenorth thanks. I'll check this soon.

[-] immortalgeek@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Do you self host hopscotch?

[-] immortalgeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

No, I am trying out their desktop app.

[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] comfydecal@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] xsevy@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago

@comfydecal any examples?

[-] comfydecal@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

[-] ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with postman?

[-] xsevy@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago

@ShrimpsIsBugs it's not opensource

[-] ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Fair.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: !golang@programming.dev, !opensource@programming.dev

[-] xsevy@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@python @golang @opensource @Daveofthenorth
@immortalgeek thanks for your help, however as @comfydecal recommended I decided to get some Insomnia fork https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: !golang@programming.dev, !opensource@programming.dev

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

What is the problem with insomnia?

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

[-] xsevy@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@somegeek multiple bugs

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 8 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.