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:
Insomnia is a bit more like classic postman, though it’s kinda heading the same way too.
Ended up falling back to cURL and shell history for REST stuffs a lot of the time.
At least it’s open-source, so it’s hard for them to destroy the product completely.
I think I remember insomnia being a pretty popular alternative when I first picked up Postman. Never gave it a chance but maybe now it’s the time to switch.
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
This kind of thing led me to disabling feature updates on my older Postman installs, and switching to Insomnia as a replacement on systems that don’t have Postman
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.
check out this topic here: https://programming.dev/post/435823 where I asked question about postman alternatives not so long ago. Tons of suggestions!
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)
I’ve never heard of Thunder Client but it looks really interesting
Thunderclient
Looks great, thanks for the rec.
https://insomnia.rest/ I’ve been using insomnia and it’s been pretty great for the most part.
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.
+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money
That’s stupid money for an api testing tool lmao
Valued at 5.6 billion dollars. Investors are fucking idiots.
And that’s putting it lightly
A tale as old as tech
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
If you use vscode, you might look at the thunderclient extension.
Oh this looks promising! Thanks!
