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Especially once a VC gets into the fold.
We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them. We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
> I didn't stick with Bruno. I think it was due to not having an equivalent to Postman's pre-request scripts.
Bruno has come a long way, we support pre-request scripts and a lot more
> But can it handle oauth2? I had to write a httpie script recently just to test an oauth2 api.
We have released oauth2 support, some rough edges are being polished
> Good thing it's open source. Money being involved, I don't have long term hopes for it's openness.
I understand this is a hard problem. We are fully bootstrapped and independent. We earn money via selling the Golden Edition. We will build more developer products in the long term, and the goal is to make even the golden edition features also open source in the future. In the unlikely case of me going dark (dead/incapacitated to lead the project), I have instructed our small team (2 FT employees) and my family to release our golden edition features too to the community as opensource. I am committed to this cause.
Some good links where I have discussed about opensource, freedom and monetization
- https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
- https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269
If you'd like to pre-order the golden edition: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing
Thank you for all the love and kind words, HN!
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I created a cli postman test runner 8 years ago due to the pains involved in API testing: https://github.com/hantuzun/jetman
It seems like the API QA developer tooling has still room for disruption.
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I am currently looking for a solution to run automated tests on a sql website generator I am working on ( https://sql.ophir.dev )
I wanted to use hurl (https://hurl.dev/), but Bruno's UI seems to be useful while developing the tests... Has someone tried both ? Which is better for automated testing, including when the response type is html and not json?
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I took a lot of inspiration from Hurl while building Nap[0]. My next goals for it are a UI and/or a VS Code extension.
[0] https://naprun.dev
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I use ZAP [1] with the OAST add-on for this at the moment. I admit the UX isn't perfect, but it serves my purpose.
If I also want control over the responses (e.g. return a 401 status code for every fifth request), I have a custom extender script [2] for that.
[1]: https://www.zaproxy.org/
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Well this is fun to see. After Postman deleted my local data after I declined a cloud account, I started working on my own tool: https://github.com/EvWilson/sqump
Some similar ideas - actually treats the file system as authoritative, runs locally, can share collections via source control with teammates. Difference in this case is that I used Lua as a lightweight scripting layer that I gave all my necessary tools to. So now I have a HTTP toolkit, and some for Kafka as well (which I use a good bit). I’ve been able to use it to replace all my API testing and development, as well as perform some more involved migrations and some dashboard-like actions (e.g. can list out resources and then check failures for each of their IDs).
It’s also just a single binary with the web UI and CLI bundled in, which works more for me. Still early days for the little tool, but hoping it could be helpful for someone else.
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I tried Hurl after Insomnia went the way of Postman. The highlights you list were the strong drivers for testing it out. Where Hurl fell short was composing requests. Example: X.hurl response has authToken. Y.hurl uses authToken. Z.hurl uses authToken. There's no import ability[1], so you've got to use other tooling to copy X.hurl into Y.hurl and Z.hurl.
Ultimately settled on Bruno. It's backed by readable text files[2] as well. The CLI works for scripting. And the GUI is familiar enough that I've managed to convert Postman holdouts at my dayjob.
[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/1723
[2]: https://docs.usebruno.com/bru-language-samples.html
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A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
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vim-rest-console[0] has been my Postman alternative for years. It basically wraps curl and makes it super easy to make different requests from a single text file. Can even write YAML and have it converted to JSON before being sent in the body. Really great tool
0: https://github.com/diepm/vim-rest-console
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mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
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httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)
There is also HTTPie which I've mostly been using for its excellent `http` CLI as a modern replacement for curl.
However I recently learned that it also has web and desktop client apps which are pretty great too!
https://httpie.io/
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Kreya
Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.
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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