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Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

Language: JavaScript

#4 in API
#159 in Hacktoberfest
HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans | Oct 2023
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You can try bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno.
HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans | Oct 2023
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Bruno seems like a good up and coming candidate. Found about this one after all the insomnia drama a couple weeks ago

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account | Oct 2023
Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

- Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs

- It is lightweight with MIT license

- Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem

- Use git for collaboration

- No cloud sync. Fully offline.

PS: I am the creator of this project

Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans | Mar 2023
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Yes, we need more tools that are cit friendly. If you are looking for a good GUI based client that works on top of plain text files, do checkout Bruno.

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans | Mar 2023
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Yes, we need more tools that work on top of plain text files. And use git for version control.

Currently working on a project to solve this https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans | Mar 2023
If you are looking for an alternate, please checkout the new and innovative api client Bruno

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

It's free, open-source and fresh with some radical ideas challenging the current status quo.

Oh, BTW we support infinite collection runs.. lol..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551735 | Jan 2023
I made a video on why the OSS project Bruno is a paradigm shift in the API Clients ecosystem as well as why collections should be saved in your api code repository

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman | Oct 2022
So the most popular open-source Postman alternatives seem to be

HoppScotch (47.7k stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

Restfox (405 stars, 2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri, Electron, Next): https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

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You can find more here: https://alternativeto.net/software/postman/