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by stevage 2245 days ago
Looks useful. I really dislike the "Download Postman and then you will have documentation" approach. Documentation lives on the web, and there are better alternatives to Postman anyway.
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https://postwoman.io/ is my fav. Works on browser no need to download an electron app to make requests. VS Code also has a nice extensions too.
I’m curious: what are your top alternatives to Postman?
Insomnia [1] is a good one, it has all the necessary features to navigate REST APIs without the cloud clutter that comes with Postman.

[1] https://insomnia.rest

Paw (https://paw.cloud) is my favourite.
Rested (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rested/) which run as a browser extension.
cURL, with some bash aliases to help things along.
I prefer this as well.

Rather not go down the road of having examples for every major platform.

restclient.el for emacs
Thanks for the feedback, I agree that the Postman approach may not be the best solution. I'll look into another way to display API docs!
I suggest swagger/openapi.