Insomnia REST VS HTTPie

Insomnia REST Reviews

HTTPie Reviews

Insomnia REST mentions (120)

• Building a RESTful API with Node.js and Express

  Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• Make your Azure OpenAI apps compliant with RBAC

  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 / about 1 month ago

• Local automation

  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 / about 2 months ago

• Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer

  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 / about 2 months ago

• Different Levels of Project Documentation

  Often used for cases where a project exposes a REST or other type of API service. Open API is a popular method of documenting such API services. It can also be used along side tools such as Swagger Codegen to produce boilerplate code for API interaction / testing purposes. There may also be support files for popular API testing tools such as Postman or Insomnia. This makes it easier at a glance to see what data is... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

HTTPie mentions (46)

• Personas - an Ai Assistant

  Tested the end points using httpie and sometime curl. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Bruno

  There is also HTTPie which I've mostly been using for its excellent `http` CLI as a modern replacement for curl. However I recently learned that it also has web and desktop client apps which are pretty great too! https://httpie.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Quarkus : Greener, Better, Faster, Stronger

  If I now starts the application and trigger the endpoint with httpie :. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• How I use Nix in my Elm projects

  In some projects I've wanted to use HTTPie to test APIs and jq to work with some JSON data. Nix has been really helpful in managing those dependencies that I can't easily get from npm. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff

  I've really been enjoying [HTTPie](https://httpie.io/) Postman has long been too bloated to be useful. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago