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by SideburnsOfDoom 1060 days ago
Agreed. Postman is a classic victim of "Enshittification" to try to recoup the VC money.

I prefer this VS Code plugin for the very simple stuff https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

I'm sure there's a gap for a "better postman" that's more complex that that, but a lot less encrusted than postman.

However IMHO, the more complex scripted testing is better done in your main dev language

Source: I have been working with Postman a lot this week. It's bad.

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https://insomnia.rest/download

Like Postman, without all the bullshit. Which is to say, like a few-versions-ago Postman.

I'm now looking at this one: https://www.usebruno.com/

The advantage of Bruno (and the VS code plugin) that storing data in "just a file" is friendly to keeping a local copy, and also to sharing, reviewing and versioning with existing tools (git).

How does insomnia handle that?

I use this VS Code plugin https://www.thunderclient.com/