Just recently fired Postman back up and it’s so different now. Finding it difficult to find my way around when all I want to do is just send a request.
I haven’t used it as much in the last 3 years just because I’ve mostly been building APIs that expose a Swagger UI, but I definitely remember the UI being much simpler back then.
Have y’all moved on to different solutions? If so which ones are you using?
EDIT
I’ve been going through the suggestions, here’s the list of suggestions in order of most times suggested or number of points on the comment:
I’m very very surprised nobody has recommended hoppscotch.io yet
I do like that, thanks for sharing. I’ll check ot out.
Hoppscotch is such an amazing project. It’s open source, selfhostable, a PWA, and does pretty much everything I used Postman for. easily best alternative for me
Hmm cloud-based solutions for this scare me. But ok if open source.
I could be wrong but I don’t think hoppscotch.io is cloud based. CMIIW
We made the decision yesterday to dump Postman in favor of Thunder Client. As soon as I saw the push to create an account and use cloud workspaces, I knew the time would come.
(edit: correct styling of Thunder Client)
I’ve never heard of Thunder Client but it looks really interesting
Thunderclient
Looks great, thanks for the rec.
I’ve always used and will continue to always use curl.
Insomnia is a bit more like classic postman, though it’s kinda heading the same way too.
Ended up falling back to cURL and shell history for REST stuffs a lot of the time.
Yeah works amazingly well on Linux too
At least it’s open-source, so it’s hard for them to destroy the product completely.
I think I remember insomnia being a pretty popular alternative when I first picked up Postman. Never gave it a chance but maybe now it’s the time to switch.
If you use vscode, you might look at the thunderclient extension.
Oh this looks promising! Thanks!
You probably want this now https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client
Thanks for the suggestion I’ll try it out!
+1, has dot env file support so you can commit your rest experiments to your repo without worrying about exposing auth secrets
Yep started using https://hoppscotch.io it’s basically a clone
https://insomnia.rest/ I’ve been using insomnia and it’s been pretty great for the most part.
This seems to be one of the most popular alternatives now.
I never gave it a chance but maybe now’s the time to switch.
That’s stupid money for an api testing tool lmao
Valued at 5.6 billion dollars. Investors are fucking idiots.
And that’s putting it lightly
A tale as old as tech
I tried postman and came to the same conclusion as you. I couldn’t figure it out at all. I downloaded an app for android called “ApI Tester”. I might try out ThunderClient, which others have suggested, if it works on Linux.
This kind of thing led me to disabling feature updates on my older Postman installs, and switching to Insomnia as a replacement on systems that don’t have Postman
It has a similar look to the classic postman. I’m just hoping they don’t go the same way postman did if they end up with big investors and ridiculous valuations.
time to switch to insomnia my friend!
Ive been using something called Insomnia lately. It’s a bit less fully-featured when it comes to things like env vars, but I love that I can copy any call from my browser’s network tab as a curl command and just paste it right into insomnia
check out this topic here: https://programming.dev/post/435823 where I asked question about postman alternatives not so long ago. Tons of suggestions!
Perfect! There’s definitely a lot of good suggestions there.
I’m just so disappointed to see Postman trying to become a more “enterprise” solution.
well, cause that’s where the most money comes from I guess
+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money
