Just recently fired Postman back up and it’s so different now. Finding it difficult to find my way around when all I want to do is just send a request.
I haven’t used it as much in the last 3 years just because I’ve mostly been building APIs that expose a Swagger UI, but I definitely remember the UI being much simpler back then.
Have y’all moved on to different solutions? If so which ones are you using?
EDIT
I’ve been going through the suggestions, here’s the list of suggestions in order of most times suggested or number of points on the comment:
Enshittification.
I just switched to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client a few years ago. Way better, simpler, easily version controlled and reviewed, completely FOSS. Only downside is it’s just for VSCode, if that’s not your thing
We made the decision yesterday to dump Postman in favor of Thunder Client. As soon as I saw the push to create an account and use cloud workspaces, I knew the time would come.
(edit: correct styling of Thunder Client)
Thunderclient
Looks great, thanks for the rec.
check out this topic here: https://programming.dev/post/435823 where I asked question about postman alternatives not so long ago. Tons of suggestions!
Stopped using it when they started sending me emails every fucking day.
I’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I WANT TO TEST AN API THANKS
This so much. Nothing worse than when a niche service emails you or push notifications you to use something you only need to use when you have a very specific need to haha.
A tale as old as tech
+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money
I tried postman and came to the same conclusion as you. I couldn’t figure it out at all. I downloaded an app for android called “ApI Tester”. I might try out ThunderClient, which others have suggested, if it works on Linux.
https://insomnia.rest/ I’ve been using insomnia and it’s been pretty great for the most part.
You probably want this now https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client
+1, has dot env file support so you can commit your rest experiments to your repo without worrying about exposing auth secrets
