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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by heywoodlh on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:44AM (#31336218)
> Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features.

> it looks like you need to install 1276 npm dependencies to use this tool

Sincere question (probably highlights my lack of understanding Node package management): how can this be a "mini" curl with that many dependencies?

Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by hassy on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:15AM (#31336779)
“mini” in the sense that it doesn’t do everything that curl does. curl does a whole lot. this tool focuses on more common use cases and makes them friendlier. plus with request waterfalls and assertions it does things curl can’t do.

the number of packages is a bit of a misnomer anyway. Artillery Probe is part of Artillery which does load testing, with multiple protocols, support for multi-step scenarios, publishing to a variety of monitoring systems (Datadog, Prometheus etc) and more. That’s what most of those packages enable.

Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by heywoodlh on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:38AM (#31340601)
I see. Thanks for the info and thanks for creating/sharing a great tool!