What happened to Postman?! (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aymon@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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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?

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[-] purplepudding@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

At least it's open-source, so it's hard for them to destroy the product completely.

[-] aymon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] uhN0id@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

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

https://insomnia.rest (GitHub)

[-] thicket@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money

[-] aymon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Seems investors are to blame...

[-] midas@ymmel.nl 2 points 1 year ago

That's stupid money for an api testing tool lmao

[-] stardust@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Valued at 5.6 billion dollars. Investors are fucking idiots.

[-] sup@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

And that's putting it lightly

[-] Fenzik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A tale as old as tech

[-] gongonzabarfarbin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://insomnia.rest/ I've been using insomnia and it's been pretty great for the most part.

[-] beaker@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

[-] agilob@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

You probably want this now https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client

[-] TeamDman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

+1, has dot env file support so you can commit your rest experiments to your repo without worrying about exposing auth secrets

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