Postman Now Supports gRPC

1. postman-app-support

   1 280 5,880 2.7

   Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

   

   3. Our roadmap is community driven: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues. Raising more investment helps us do more. We have built a business model around doing the maximum for every developer on the planet while also providing value to companies so we can charge for it and continue development. I find it fair that companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on salaries can pay some money for improving their productivity by spending in developer tools.

2. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. Hoppscotch

   2 229 66,418 9.6 TypeScript

   Open source API development ecosystem.

   

   Hoppscotch (https://hoppscotch.io/) is another one I've heard good things about.

   Personally I like the VSCode REST Client best: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

4. grpcui

   3 11 5,322 6.9 Go

   An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman

   

   I've been using https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui + Paw so I hope that Paw catches up and also adds gRPC support. Definitely a good decision to have everything in one tool.

5. grpc-browser

   4 1 24 0.0 C#

   A web UI for browsing and executing gRPC operations in your .NET application

   Good to hear. I became frustrated with the gRPC debugging experience recently, so I wrote GrpcBrowser, an extension for .NET apps that adds a swagger-like web UI: https://github.com/thomaswormald/grpc-browser

6. httpbin

   5 81 12,902 0.0 Python

   HTTP Request & Response Service, written in Python + Flask.

   

   On a related note, I'm wondering if there are plans for updating httpbin. The httpbin repo was transferred to the Postman organization somewhere between January and March of 2019 [1]. The last commit was made on November 2018 [2] and it's currently suffering from outdated Python dependencies.

   [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190322170311/https://github.co...

   [2]: https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin

7. grpcurl

   6 38 11,090 6.3 Go

   Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

   

   I've been using gRPCurl for years and, once you understand gRPC and Protobuf, it's pretty easy to use and can be scripted in many ways - https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl.

8. milkman

   7 10 1,161 7.0 Java

   An Extensible Request/Response Workbench

   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.

9. soapui

   8 22 1,590 6.1 Java

   SoapUI is a free and open source cross-platform functional testing solution for APIs and web services.

   

   I found SoapUI when I had to develop some SOAP services, but these days it also does REST etc just fine.

   For someone like me who just does this occasionally I found it rather useful.

   [1]: https://www.soapui.org

10. httptoolkit

    9 38 2,848 5.2

    HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful & open-source tool for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S) on Windows, Linux & Mac :tada: Open an issue here to give feedback or ask for help.

    

    > One of the issues I found with http clients I looked into is that they often don't provide enough functionality to hook into the request process. Either before or after a request is executed to add to the headers or parameters of the request or getting the results of the request.

    I find that httpkit (or just mitmproxy) often gives me decent insight to the actual requests.

    I don't know about altering requests "in flight" - I typically re-issue the request via curl or my application server (eg: rails console or debugger breakpoint).

    Strongly considering purchasing httpkit - but so far I've just needed it occasionally.

    I feel like postman etc is closer to println Debugging, while just intercepting the traffic is more like using a real debugger. But I guess I can see why some like postman etc for exploration - so far i prefer swagger for that (or soapui for xml/soap - preferably running soapui under httpkit for the best of both worlds).

    https://httptoolkit.tech/

11. verb

    10 16 553 8.6 Emacs Lisp

    Organize and send HTTP requests from Emacs

    if you are using emacs you can also give this a shot https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

    It lets you write the api, test it and generate the documentation all from the same source of truth file.

12. httpyac

    11 4 465 9.2 TypeScript

    Command Line Interface for *.http and *.rest files. Connect with http, gRPC, WebSocket and MQTT

    Here is the github repo for httpyac [1]. Not sure why it's not part of the httpyac org that hosts the site.

    [1] https://github.com/AnWeber/httpyac

13. Kreya

    12 25 292 1.3 JavaScript

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

    

    Kreya is (in our opinion) the most powerful gRPC GUI client out there, but the UI is not as overloaded as the Postman one. REST support and scripting/test integratiom coming soon as well!

    https://kreya.app

14. prestige

    13 14 382 0.0 TypeScript

    A text-based HTTP client in the browser. An interface-less Postman.

    Shameless plug: There's also Prestige at https://prestigemad.com, which is very similar but works right in the browser. You can save your files as Gists as well. Templating with variables is also supported with `${}` syntax, like Javascript's template strings.

    But gRPC support is not built yet. It's on the roadmap.

15. insomnia

    14 242 35,352 9.8 JavaScript

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

    

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