Based on our record, Insomnia REST seems to be a lot more popular than Fern. While we know about 121 links to Insomnia REST, we've tracked only 6 mentions of Fern. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Lots of these have been popping up lately, they all seem really good. https://buildwithfern.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
Thank you for your encouraging words and insights! There are indeed popular DSLs and code to openapi solutions out there. Many of which are easy to plug in to the openapi-stack libraries btw! I guess I personally always found it frustrating to try to control the generated OpenAPI output using additional tooling and ended up preferring yaml + a visualisation tool as the api design workflow. (e.g. Swagger editor)... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Fern (YC W23) | Founding Engineer | New York City | $125k-$175k + equity | Full Time | Open Source | https://buildwithfern.com REST APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth. With Fern, we aim to bring great developer experiences to REST APIs. Our stack is Next.js +... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
I think part of why tRPC shines is because it's tightly coupled to TypeScript (and especially Zod, its schema validation library of choice - many of its features map 1:1 onto TypeScript concepts that don't exist in many other languages), which means it can avoid many of the issues that OpenAPI generators have. I'd also like to see a good TS-first OpenAPI client - Fern [0] is probably the closest I've seen.... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
For cross-language, I can recommend Fern, which works with OpenAPI http://buildwithfern.com. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
To get started with Insomnia, download it from the official website, install it, and create a new request by selecting the appropriate HTTP method and entering your endpoint URL. - Source: dev.to / about 1 hour ago
Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
We will be performing all of the authentication requests manually, however for testing purposes, you might want to use an API testing tool such as Postman or Insomnia. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
For a very long time, the go-to tool was curl. Great, always available command line tool. Unfortunately, there is one small issue. It’s hard to keep requests and collect them in collections, it’s great for one-time shots or debugging, but for constant working with API could be painful. To solve it, I started working with tools like Postman/Insomnia. Then eh... Strange licensing model, or changes which occurred... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
At first, I used Postman for testing APIs because it had a lot of features. But I switched to Insomnia because it was easier to use and kept everything organized. The big problem with Insomnia was that it deleted all my saved work when it made me create an account to keep using it. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
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