[HN Gopher] Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Ins...
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       Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
        
       Author : the_arun
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-02-01 02:36 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | bdcravens wrote:
       | I've run the open source version of Insomnia
       | (https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium) for a while, but as that
       | project is no longer actively maintained, I may give this a look.
        
         | captn3m0 wrote:
         | The Insomnia creator has also started https://Yaak.app, which
         | uses Tauri instead of electron iirc.
        
           | tills13 wrote:
           | Wait so he sold his product and they didn't put a NCC on him?
        
       | DrBenCarson wrote:
       | The industry has largely moved to
       | [Bruno](https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)
        
         | jauntywundrkind wrote:
         | Yes, But.
         | 
         | It doesn't seem like the worst - yet - but Bruno also ramped up
         | their monetization. So far it seems survivable. But given how
         | things have gone before, it's unclear how viable Bruno will
         | really remain.
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170934
        
       | est wrote:
       | Am I the only one who use CURL over such tools?
       | 
       | I don't want a 300MB electron client doing GET/POST work,
       | especially those with hidden telemetry on.
        
         | asciii wrote:
         | The more experience I get, the more I prefer it
        
         | jicea wrote:
         | You may like Hurl [1]: it's an Open source cli based on curl
         | (libcurl to be exact), to run and test HTTP requests with plain
         | text (I'm one of the maintainers). We recently add --curl
         | option to come back to curl. Give it a shout!
         | 
         | [1]: https://hurl.dev
        
           | VTimofeenko wrote:
           | Recently tried out hurl for a project to show how abstract
           | tests can be run in a specific environment. Great tool, it
           | will definitely stay as part of my standard toolset.
        
         | wiether wrote:
         | I guess it really depends on your usecase.
         | 
         | If you're just _hacking_ a few simple calls, curl is the way to
         | go.
         | 
         | But if you're working in a team, with multiple environments,
         | with complex payloads, authentication, doing dozens of API
         | calls everyday... Having a software able to manage libraries of
         | endpoints, parameters, simple environment switching, included
         | auth, sharing between team members... is a big time saver.
         | 
         | I personally prefer IntelliJ's HTTP Client[0] since I always
         | have my IDE open, the files are not obfuscated in a gibberish
         | format and can be versioned/shared through Git. But when I
         | start working on an existing project, having a Postman
         | collection to rely on is a huge time-saver, instead of having
         | to go down in-existent API docs or trying to infer from the
         | code itself.
         | 
         | [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-
         | product-c...
        
       | politelemon wrote:
       | Terminal based: https://posting.sh/
        
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