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Kreya | insomnia | |
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25 | 225 | |
268 | 33,067 | |
2.6% | 1.6% | |
5.3 | 9.7 | |
about 2 months ago | 5 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
- | Apache License 2.0 |
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Kreya
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Bruno
Looks very nice; I've also given up with Postman. gRPC support would probably get Bruno into my daily workflow immediately. I spent a couple hours in Postman trying to get gRPC to work and could not- the .proto files were never used successfully, and I had better experiences with Kreya [0] and grpcui [1].
[0] https://kreya.app/
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Kreya [1] can do that. It is even optimized for it, so that diffs should be perfectly readable.
[1] https://kreya.app
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Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff
As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app. It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally.
As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.
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Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
There is also https://kreya.app, which has more features, but is closed-source
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?
Given the recent update[0] pushed by the Insomnia team I am now looking for alternatives.
For now the best alternative I've found is Bruno[1]. But sadly it does not support gRPC.
Does anyone have a better solution?
These are some options I've looked into:
- https://hoppscotch.io/
- https://hurl.dev/
- https://recipeui.com/
- https://kreya.app/
- https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
[0] - https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585
[1] - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
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Insomnia REST client now requires an account
If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/
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Best alternative to Postman?
I like Kreya (kreya.app), but I am biased, since I am one of the creators :)
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Milkman (postman alternative) now supports http/3
Have you tried Kreya? While it does not support all of the many features of Postman, it has some innovative features. While also being web-based, it uses the native WebView of the OS, resulting in less RAM-usage than Electron based apps.
- GUI gRPC and REST client (Postman alternative)
- Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman
insomnia
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Building a RESTful API with Node.js and Express
Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected.
- Ask HN: Alternatives to Postman?
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Make your Azure OpenAI apps compliant with RBAC
We will be performing all of the authentication requests manually, however for testing purposes, you might want to use an API testing tool such as Postman or Insomnia.
- The Collaborative API Development Platform – Insomnia
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Local automation
For a very long time, the go-to tool was curl. Great, always available command line tool. Unfortunately, there is one small issue. It’s hard to keep requests and collect them in collections, it’s great for one-time shots or debugging, but for constant working with API could be painful. To solve it, I started working with tools like Postman/Insomnia. Then eh... strange licensing model, or changes which occurred from Kong side click, definitely push me again for some lookup. After checking different very popular tools and those not such well known I decided to use… Ansible. Sounds strange right? Let me explain this decision. For example, look at this code.
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Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
At first, I used Postman for testing APIs because it had a lot of features. But I switched to Insomnia because it was easier to use and kept everything organized. The big problem with Insomnia was that it deleted all my saved work when it made me create an account to keep using it.
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Different Levels of Project Documentation
Often used for cases where a project exposes a REST or other type of API service. Open API is a popular method of documenting such API services. It can also be used along side tools such as Swagger Codegen to produce boilerplate code for API interaction / testing purposes. There may also be support files for popular API testing tools such as Postman or Insomnia. This makes it easier at a glance to see what data is coming back from a call so the user knows how to handle parsing the data.
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Web scraping in 10 mins
Well, there is this website that I have been trying to scrape for a few days now. I had tried everything from scrapy splash on docker to almost giving up because I read somewhere that it was JavaScript rendered. Since the source code from the inspect part of the developer tools was different from the source code from the view-source:https//... on the same developer tools.How could this be possible? Then I kept searching on internet and found this concept; where you can mimic web-browsers requests from a server using an API program,and it worked magically. Some of the API programs are postman and insomnia. I prefer using insomnia for this particular case , feel free to use any other API program of your choice.
- Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use
- GitHub stars are one of the most inexpensive ways to generate an outsized outcome in the community by leveraging the tailwinds of increased adoption
What are some alternatives?
bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.
Postwoman - 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io
grpc-gateway - gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec
altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.
grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
grpcui - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman
swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
httpyac - Command Line Interface for *.http and *.rest files. Connect with http, gRPC, WebSocket and MQTT
httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.