stepci VS Kreya

Location: EU, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML, CSS, TailwindCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React/Next.js, Vue/Nuxt, GraphQL, REST, Postgres, Git, AWS, Docker + K8s

GitHub: https://github.com/mishushakov

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mishushakov

Email: hey at mish.co

Most recently, I worked at Step CI a Technical Founder and authored the API-Testing Framework (https://stepci.com) and Garph (https://garph.dev), a full-stack API-Framework, which brings the developer-experience of tRPC to GraphQL.

My passion is in making tools developers love using and make them more productive.

For automated testing, you should give Step CI (https://github.com/stepci/stepci) a try

Ps. I helped build it

The problem is that you can import commonjs modules in ESM but not the other way around. For stepci (https://stepci.com) we have chosen to not support ESM for this very reason. We want that the library “just works” for all our users

Hopscotch is not a Postman fork as far as I know.

You can also do request chaining with Step CI (https://stepci.com) and Hurl (https://hurl.dev)

There’s also Step CI: https://stepci.com

Disclaimer: I’m one of the authors

It's a config driven uptime monitoring service powered by Step CI, an open source API testing framework.

You might try DiY-ing it with this open-source framework - https://stepci.com/

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/

Kreya [1] can do that. It is even optimized for it, so that diffs should be perfectly readable.

[1] https://kreya.app

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.

There is also https://kreya.app, which has more features, but is closed-source

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

If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/

I like Kreya (kreya.app), but I am biased, since I am one of the creators :)

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.