https://justuse.org/curl/

TL;DR;

Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

Enshittification

https://justuse.org/curl/

So much work and investigation into a tool that is a front end for something already on your system.

Our team lives in Git, our communication is happening on slack, our docs written and maintained on confluence and after some time they always drift away from the actual requests inside Postman.

So we built and open sourced Voiden a few months ago: an API tool where all that: specs, tests, context and docs are always together in the same executable plain text file (markdown). We also made this Git native so that every change is versioned and tracked just like code.

The last change we have made is to add a Runner so that one can run the files directly from the terminal and CI/CD pipelines.

here is the tool: https://voiden.md/download repo: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

welcome to try and give feedback!

I’ve taken to writing .http files which are runnable on a number of IDEs and plugins. I don’t need to know what anybody else is using to run them, they live with the code and I’m happy.

That said, I’ve seen people on QA do really cool end-to-end tests at load via very approachable scripting on Postman.

There’s lots of room for “to each their own” here.

Go back to the future:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rester/

I also use Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

I started using bruno for lazy gui "make a request" needs.

But for anything serious python requests is right there, so I mostly used that for testing.

Never had any use case for collaborating on requests, why do you use it?

I remember when postman used to bring little envelopes (sometimes little boxes) to people's homes and was paid by tax money and the small amount of postal fees we paid.