Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman

• Hoppscotch

  228 66,035 9.6 TypeScript

  Open source API development ecosystem.

  

  https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870#issuecom...

• CodeRabbit

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  CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

  

• insomnia

  240 35,117 9.8 JavaScript

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

  

  I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked)

  https://insomnia.rest/

  I actually prefer it.

• stepci

  46 1,679 7.4 TypeScript

  Automated API Testing and Quality Assurance

  

  If you like hurl, you may as well like Step CI, which uses yaml and supports gRPC

  Give it a try: https://stepci.com

  It's free and open-source on GitHub under MPL license

• vscode-restclient

  15 5,335 6.3 TypeScript

  REST Client Extension for Visual Studio Code

  I switched to "vscode-restclient" about a year ago and never looked back. It has variables, everything is saved as text, and I can commit it to source control for collaboration's sake.

  https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

• Kreya

  25 291 1.8 JavaScript

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

  

  I use https://kreya.app/. It is very lean and the only GUI client not using Electron, I could find.

• milkman

  10 1,152 7.0 Java

  An Extensible Request/Response Workbench

• Restfox

  12 2,105 9.7 Vue

  Offline-First Minimalistic HTTP & Socket Testing Client for the Web & Desktop

  try to `fetch('https://www.google.com')` from console on a few different websites and you'll either see CSP errors or see the same CORS errors that come up in restfox. all the extension does is send the request with the runtime api to get around the (good and reasonable) security constraints on web pages loaded over http: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/tree/main/packages/b...

• SaaSHub

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• postwoman

  1 79 10.0

  👽 A free, fast and beautiful API request builder (web alternative to Postman) https://postwoman.io (by f0rb1d)

• restclient.el

  24 1,977 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Discontinued HTTP REST client tool for emacs

  Although I mainly stick with curl or requests due to muscle memory, there's also restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el. I imagine having builtin org support is super convenient, thanks for sharing.

• vim-http-client

  2 186 10.0 Python

  Forget your curl today! Make HTTP requests from Vim without wrestling the command line!

  I have moved from postman to https://github.com/aquach/vim-http-client and have never looked back ever since, its opens in vim and has variables to store values and can store comments too in a .txt file. Give this a try if you are using vim.

• verb

  16 546 8.7 Emacs Lisp

  Organize and send HTTP requests from Emacs

• bruno

  70 28,379 9.8 JavaScript

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

  

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