RESTED vs desktop

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RESTED		desktop
	Project
1	Mentions	11
279	Stars	2,229
1.4%	Growth	6.4%
0.0	Activity	4.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
JavaScript	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

RESTED

Posts with mentions or reviews of RESTED. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-28.

Hoppscotch: Open-Source Alternative to Postman
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2022

I often use the RESTED firefox extension, which covers like 90% of my adhoc http request needs: https://github.com/RESTEDClient/RESTED

desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.

HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 12 Oct 2023

18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023

Here I suppose?
https://github.com/httpie/desktop/archive/refs/tags/v2023.3....
Changelog #0024 — ✨️ Improved variables and more
2 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2023

Check out what’s new in HTTPie for Web & Desktop 2023.3.0, and HTTPie for Terminal 3.2.2 👇
Changelog #0023 — 🛠️ Internal refactoring and improvements
4 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2023

HTTPie for Web & Desktop v2023.2.x is out, and it’s probably our biggest release yet — regarding lines of code changed, anyway!
Changelog #0022 — 🪄 HTTPie AI assistant, methods in tabs, and more
1 project | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

Happy new year! 🥳 Let’s start it with a new release of HTTPie for Web & Desktop. Check out what we shipped v2023.1.0 👇
Changelog #0021 — 📯 Advanced import, GraphQL schema support, and more
1 project | dev.to | 8 Dec 2022

Hello, API World! Check out what we shipped in v2022.16.0 of HTTPie for Web & Desktop 👇
Changelog #0020 — 🔦 Data filtering, search & replace, RegExp, and more
1 project | dev.to | 24 Oct 2022

Hello, API World! We’re back with a new release of HTTPie for Web & Desktop, the API testing client that you’ll enjoy using. Last time, we hinted at additional tools for navigating and processing data. And that’s been our theme for this release. Check out what we shipped in v2022.15.0👇
Changelog #0019 — 🖐️ Library ordering, search, keyboard shortcuts, and more
1 project | dev.to | 28 Sep 2022

The theme of this release is developer productivity and streamlining the overall experience. Check out what we shipped in v2022.14.0👇
Changelog #0018 — 🚀 GraphQL, custom HTTP method, interactive URLs, and more
2 projects | dev.to | 30 Aug 2022

Hello, API World! After launching in public beta earlier this month, we’re back with more news on HTTPie for Web & Desktop. Check out the API testing improvements we’ve shipped in v2022.12.0 and v2022.13.0 since then 👇
Hoppscotch: Open-Source Alternative to Postman
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RESTED and desktop you can also consider the following projects:

insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

nightingale-rest-api-client - A modern, resource-efficient REST API client for Windows

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

ht - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

vscode-httpyac - Quickly and easily send REST, Soap, GraphQL, GRPC, MQTT and WebSocket requests directly within Visual Studio Code

milkman - An Extensible Request/Response Workbench

probster - A simple GTK app for http testing

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby

RESTer - A REST client for almost any web service (Firefox and Chrome Extension)