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

Hoppscotch Hurl.dev Paw.cloud Insomnia REST Milkman Productivity Power Tools restclient.el
  1. Open source API development ecosystem
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time): Restfox https://restfox.dev/ Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/ Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/ HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-code-.

    #Web App #Productivity #APIs 77 social mentions

  2. Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I have been trying out https://hurl.dev and so far been really liking it. Plain text format, everything runs very quickly locally, it can capture data from previous requests to run workflows and serve as a testing tool.

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

  3. Paw is a REST client for Mac.
    Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier (https://paw.cloud).

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

  4. The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    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.

    #API Tools #API #Developer Tools 120 social mentions

  5. Milkman is a JavaFx-based workbench for crafting requests / responses. It is not limited to e.g. http (or more specifically rest) requests but can be extended in any imaginable way. It is optimized for fast startup and efficient workflow.

    #API Tools #APIs #Developer Tools 4 social mentions

  6. Extension for Visual Studio - A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    If you are a minimalist, and are using VS Code, try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client which is a pure text syntax to describe API requests, and execute them right from the editor window. I now have api.http text file in every API-first project I am building and I love it.

    #Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 360 social mentions

  7. 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.

    #API Tools #Developer Tools #APIs 6 social mentions

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