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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by ako on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:18AM (#33288228)
Same here, moved from postman to insomnia, now mostly using the rest plugin for visual studio code. Prefer using regular text files.
Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by anamexis on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:50AM (#33288583)
I similarly use restclient.el on Emacs and love it.

For those unfamiliar with these plugins, they allow you to simply write text files looking like:

    GET https://example.com/posts/5
    Accept: application/json
or

    POST https://example.com/posts
    Content-Type: application/json
    Authorization: Bearer abc

    {"title": "foo", "body": "bar"}
and simply execute the requests from the buffer.
Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by mdaniel on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:23PM (#33289790)
There's one built into the JetBrains editors, too. And the upcoming release is going to allow one to wrap very long URLs for better visibility and include fun things like "$random.email" in the request: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/10/intellij-idea-2022-3... (EAP releases are always free of charge, if one wanted to play with it right now; just please report bugs if you find them, as that's the reason they're free)