Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by callmekatootie on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:31AM (#30500865)

My main grouse with these REST GUI clients is how much memory they consume. Maybe because they are electron apps in the end, but it's just funny that nobody's devoting any time to create native apps anymore for something that should be a utility and not the main app.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by _fat_santa on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:25AM (#30501650)

Not sure about Windows but for MacOS, Paw is an excellent Native app. Thought not worth the $50 for me since I hardly ever work on API's.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by ideologysec on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:45AM (#30501912)

dunno your operating system, but Paw for macOS is a great native REST/API GUI client.

https://paw.cloud/

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by eyelidlessness on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:52PM (#30502729)

I haven’t used Paw because I have very little need for a tool in this category lately, but I’m tempted to buy it anyway just to reward them for developing a good native Mac UI, and not restricting it to a subscription model.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by rubyist5eva on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:21PM (#30502346)

ironically, they have a not-mac version that is electron based

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by slim on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:46PM (#30502665)

it should be a browser developer tools addon

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by nwsm on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:56PM (#30502790)

Most devs who use something like Postman in their normal workflow would prefer a standalone client (or cli).

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by notpushkin on Monday February 28, 2022 @04:20PM (#30505295)

I'm working on something a bit orthogonal, but similar in spirit: a “network requests” tool, similar to the Network tab in Devtools, but batteries included and working _both_ as a browser extension and a reverse proxy standalone app – so you just pick whatever suites your workflow better today. It's still super early stage though.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by thefunnyman on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:04PM (#30507068)

In Firefox dev tools you can replay and modify requests which isn’t something I’ve found in chromium browsers.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by TameAntelope on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:53PM (#30502766)

Why would I use a browser developer tool to test an API? A browser is wholly uninvolved in API development.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by slim on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:53AM (#30510958)

because the browser is literally the HTTP client. why would you need to use something else for a very specific case of HTTP protocol interaction ?

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by TameAntelope on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:02AM (#30511027)

Because a browser is not the HTTP client.

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by tomc1985 on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:01PM (#30504367)

It still makes calls, and a proper REST client means you can make POST/PUT/etc on command

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Re:Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman by getcrunk on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:34PM (#30503260)

That's only true if you aren't testing in prod

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