Postman Now Supports gRPC

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Hurl.dev

Very happy with it currently, but there are really a lot of very good tools in this space (as we can see in these comments). [1] https://hurl.dev.

#Command Line Tools #HTTP #HTTP Test Tool 39 social mentions

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Productivity Power Tools

I have a great alternative to suggest, if the only thing you want to do is fire requests on demand easily and do not need automated testing. The VS Code Rest Client extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client is great for testing and debugging APIs. You create a "my_request.http" file that contains something like <pre><code> POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 362 social mentions

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Hoppscotch

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.rest-client.

#Web App #Productivity #APIs 77 social mentions

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Paw.cloud

#API Tools #APIs #Web Service Automation 42 social mentions

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Auxl

If you're on macOS, Auxl (https://auxl.io) is another option to try. Support for gRPC should be coming soon. Disclosure: I am the author.

#Mac #APIs #Developer Tools 1 social mentions

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Milkman

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.

#API Tools #APIs #Developer Tools 4 social mentions

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HTTP Toolkit

> 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/.

#Software Development #Development Tools #Security 24 social mentions

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JMeter

I like is Apache JMeter, more for load testing but it can be used to get all the same information as all the other tools people are mentioning. https://jmeter.apache.org/.

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Insomnia REST

Http://insomnia.rest/ Which is an open source, cross platform alternative to postman.

#API Tools #API #Developer Tools 120 social mentions