Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
by kodah on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:19AM
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Why not spend your time making E2E tests faster and write a thin http client for testing that you can run as part of your testing framework?
Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
by pmontra on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:04PM
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I'm not the parent poster. Your question assumes that Postman / curl / anything are used to test something. I generally use those kind of tools to explore an API and I write tests later if I use it or never if the team decides to use something else. After all a project defines very few APIs but consumes a lot of them from external entities, at least in the projects I'm working on.
Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
by jicea on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:11PM
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I suggest you could try Hurl (https://hurl.dev). It’s a cli tool to send and test HTTP requests, in plain text.
As I’m one of the maintainer, I find it quite readable…
https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870#issuecom...
Sadly I don't think they never understood the actual goal of it. And just added github to sync to or something like that. Which isn't what I was looking for.
I use IntellIJ and the http client does it and it works very well. But sadly the rest of the http client is annoying just basic stuff like reading the response is always a few more clicks than I want and compared to Insomnia so much harder.