points by rurp 4 days ago | 0 comments
Lots of discussion about less terrible alternatives to postman. For those already using a Jetbrains IDE there's a builtin rest client that works well. I haven't used it for anything too complicated, but for routine stuff where you need to hit an endpoint and fiddle with the payload and headers it's great.
[–] asimovDev 4 days ago
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/09/import-postman-colle...
relevant article
[–] rhdunn 4 days ago
The JetBrains IDE, Visual Studio, and VS Code all support http files as well, which can be checked into an application.
[–] kubelsmieci 4 days ago
The REST Client for VS Code is pretty good; I’ve been using it for a few years now.
[–] dboreham 4 days ago
I've been doing this stuff since before http existed and have never used postman or anything similar. Just write code. Now LLMs write the code.
There's also one available as a major mode for Emacs: https://melpa.org/#/restclient
If the command line is acceptable but you want more of a focus on usability than curl has, there's httpie (https://httpie.io/) and its clone xh (https://github.com/ducaale/xh).