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by S04dKHzrKT 836 days ago
If you use IntelliJ based products, the builtin HTTP Client is awesome. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...
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If you use computers, Curl is awesome. https://curl.se/
If you use a router, manually connecting wires to send data is awesome
For JSON based REST APIs httpie is somewhat easier to use.
In the same sense that no one needs a graphics editor when imagemagick is available via the command line.
Yeah, this is what I moved to after Insomnia started down the same path as Postman. Very portable text files that can work anywhere.