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

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[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 8 points 11 months 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/extension/rangav/vscode-thunder-client

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

[–] EmasXP@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Madeyro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

This looks very good. Thanks for sharing.

[–] voidentropy@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months 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

[–] Brisolo32@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 11 months ago

Insomnia or just plain old cURL

[–] w2qw@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago
[–] cpressland@celeb.pizza 2 points 11 months 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.

[–] tiny@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Thunderclient for vscodium

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months 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.

[–] starman@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Sometimes swagger UI

[–] wernsting@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I use Thunder client in VSC.

[–] oddsys@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] sknowmads@dormi.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why switch? Postman is still my go-to

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.

[–] ictinus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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