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PSA - Postman desktop modifies your coding agents to route API data via their own infrastructure (github.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's a handy way for developers to test APIs. It really is just a UI for curl. Lets you save your headers and stuff to test again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    developers to test APIs

    Specifically that? So, a fancy web UI for quickly cobbled shell scripts or oneliners?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I don't know what a webui is, I've only seen it run as a desktop application. A FOSS alternative is Bruno.

    Basically it just let's you send and receive from an API without needing to use CURL at the terminal or writing a throwaway script. I have not found it very useful but it is very popular

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It just sounds so much like a tool that Windows devs would use. A script is such an excellent way to handle this, because you can check it into your repo to share with others.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I've seen people commit their postman stuff in for this purpose. Dunno.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, I mean, someone here wrote that it also handles secrets for you and stuff like that. I'm sure, it has some merit as a complete package.

    But, you know, Unix philosophy. You should have separate tools that you compose.
    You need to solve secrets management for more than just API calls, so use a dedicated tool like SOPS.
    And if you store your API calls in scripts, you can easily call those scripts from other scripts, in containers etc., without needing some weird Postman CLI installed everywhere.
    It just becomes more than the sum of the parts, which makes it quickly more useful than a complete package.

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