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Where is API tooling lacking ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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The default API tooling that comes to your mind is Postman.

Postman is cloud based - the other offline alternatives are on their way to enshittification.

Is there any solution to the problem or we should all default to curl.

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[–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There are a few other options, such as Bruno.

https://www.usebruno.com/

But if you can spare the time to learn curl it's probably the most versatile.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    subscription based right?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    It's free for a single user, but you pay a subscription per user for collaborative use.

    I'm just a solo enthusiast so it's free for what I'd use it for.

    Edit: I guess to your earlier point perhaps this a step towards enshitification and they might well put more and more tools behind a paywall.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yup, Bruno is my choice as well coming from Insomnia and Postman. I was lucky enough to purchase the early supporter lifetime license when it was available, so I'll be using it for the foreseeable future. Hopefully it doesn't enshittify as another commenter pointed out.

    While I still use curl for simple requests, I really do like having a GUI. Features like prettifying requests and responses, being able to fold code, saving requests, shared authorization across multiple requests, etc. Are the reasons why I don't think I could ever really use CLI options.

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