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milkman | insomnia | |
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10 | 225 | |
1,060 | 33,067 | |
- | 1.6% | |
8.4 | 9.7 | |
about 1 month ago | 3 days ago | |
Java | JavaScript | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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milkman
- HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
- Announcing the new lightweight Postman API Client and sunsetting Scratch Pad!
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Need a fully local web alternative to Postman
- https://insomnia.rest/ - https://hoppscotch.io/ - https://github.com/karatelabs/karate - https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman
- Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman
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Postman Now Supports gRPC
There certainly are plenty of Postman alternatives out there, one that I've used before is Milkman: https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman
It's built on a plugin architecture, does gRPC, GraphQL, JDBC, Ws, et.al. Other plugins allow sharing of workspaces to various services. Written in Java/JavaFX, brew or chocolatey install.
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
I built milkman[1], an alternative to postman because I wanted one tool to integrate with the whole web development stack. One tool that contains my SQL, rest and grpc calls to easily debug issues. Also nearly none of those kind of tools that existed supported SSE which I also use in my day to day work.
[1] https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman
- Your cool open source libraries
- Milkman – An Extensible Request/Response Workbench
- Do you have a github account ? What are you working on as a Java side-project ?
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?
castlemock - Castle Mock is a web application that provides the functionality to mock out RESTful APIs and SOAP web services.
Postwoman - 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io
grpc-browser - A web UI for browsing and executing gRPC operations in your .NET application
altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.
webtau - WebTau (web test automation) is a testing API, command line tool and a framework to write unit, integration and end-to-end tests. Test across REST-API, WebSocket, GraphQL, Browser, Database, CLI and Business Logic with a consistent set of matchers and concepts. REPL mode speeds-up tests development. Rich reporting cuts down investigation time.
bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.
Kreya - Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)
swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
Minestom - 1.20.4 Lightweight Minecraft server
httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.