Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs

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  • bruno

    Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

  • Happy to see Bruno trending in HN.I had recently penned some thoughts on opensource sustainability, the early days and the future plans of Bruno in this discussion thread: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

  • insomnium

    Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia

  • There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:

    https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

    and discussed here:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Kreya

    Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.

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

  • awesome-api-clients

    List of awesome API clients. Postman and Insomnia alternatives

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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