any Insomnia alternatives which are not Postman? I need rest and graphql support. (mastodon.social)

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any Insomnia alternatives which are not Postman? I need rest and graphql support.
Insomnia is getting worse and worse and I'm worried it won't be better.
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[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

You can just use normal .http files. There’s support in all jetbrains products, vs code, visual studio, jetbrains even wrote a cli tool for it. https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/07/04/http-client-tools-everywhere/

https://kenslearningcurve.com/tutorials/test-an-api-by-using-http-files-in-vscode/

The nice thing about http files is that you’re never going to be locked into some company’s standard. They’re literally all just plain text files.

MS is trying to create a standard. https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/29431

There’s also https://httpyac.github.io though I’ve never heard of anyone using it.

Anyway, moving away from these proprietary separate HTTP/REST call products is a good thing. Postman really led the enshittification in this area.