Insomnia user here too, I’ve found it to be simple,clean and to my taste.

Insomnia is great and has an easy, simple interface. But I feel like creating complex collections with different environments is a lot simpler with postman

As a lot of other comments have already suggested, HTTP Toolkit is a good alternative and I used it quite a bit prior to discovering Postman…

I use milkman

I completely stopped using all those clients. We now just store the requests alongside the code in an http file and use the built in IntelliJ HTTP Client to make the call. No need for a separate program, integrates with your code, you can save responses to make sure they don’t change, it’s all stored in git. There’s a ton of benefits and not many downsides.

I usually generate an API client in C#, and just use that. For example, and entire integration CRUD test for a user would just be something like:

var user = TestClient.CreateUser(1234, "Bob");
user.Id.ShouldBe(1234);
user.Name.ShouldBe("Bob");

var userThroughGet = TestClient.GetUser(1234);
userThroughGet.ShouldNotBeNull();

TestClient.EditUser(1234, "John");
userThroughGet = TestClient.GetUser(1234);
userThroughGet.Name.ShouldBe("John");

TestClient.DeleteUser(1234);
userThroughGet = TestClient.GetUser(1234);
userThroughGet.ShouldBeNull();

Trying to set up those kinda scenarios quickly with Postman was getting pretty tedious

+1 for Insomnia

Hoppscotch is pretty cool

I’m using the vscode extension called Thunderclient

I’m saying that Postman is bad. maybe not in terms of functionality, but damn if it doesn’t run like a slug on my work computer, which is just fine handling a dozen Visual Studio and Rider instances. It seems like it works perfectly for about 5 minutes and then goes to crap.

So yeah, I’d be interested in an alternative too. I only really use it for basic functionality (creating, sharing, and running collections of requests with configurable parameters).

Another vote for Insomnia here. I used to use Insomnia primarily until a lot of my work switched over to gRPC and I’ve found that Postman works a lot better for that. I still prefer Insomnia for the simple UX and speed, just wish it had better gRPC support.

I find postman to be too complex, too much config all over the place. It’s also difficult to share with others, it would be much better if it could store the settings in a file that could then be checked into git. That way everyone on the project would have the requests and could add and modify them as the server changes. Does any client like this exist?

Yeah it’s called curl lol

If you need a GUI I’d recommend Insomnia, if not cURL is pretty amazing.

Insomnia used to be good, but it’s WebKit, so really heavy to run, it crashed my PC several times