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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.
[–] isityettime 4 days ago
> [for every] Jetbrains IDE there's a builtin rest client that works well

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).

[–] 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.