Hey HN,<p>I'm looking for alternatives to Postman. It's become too bloated in my opinion and I no longer enjoy using it. I'd like something minimal yet effective, preferably as a "native" macOS app but I might be fine with a functional and well-designed electron app.<p>Thanks for any suggestions!
Bruno is a FOSS alternative, it is an Electron app, but widely used already:
<a href="https://www.usebruno.com/downloads" rel="nofollow">https://www.usebruno.com/downloads</a><p>What I like about it that requests are defined in a simple markup language called "Bru" and stores as simple text files, you can easily throw them around.
This completely depends on your use-case, but I've personally found that the edit and re-send [1] features of Firefox are enough for my purposes most of the time.<p>[1] <a href="https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/network_monitor/request_details/index.html#headers-toolbar" rel="nofollow">https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/networ...</a>
Currently using Insomnium [1], a fork of Insomnia before the login demands. Most likely found it here at HN [2] and decided to try it out.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium">https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582</a>
I like restclient. There's no UI, just .http files with a simple format for describing requests. there's a version for emacs and vscode that are mostly interoperable.
I would say use insomnia but it’s going down the same path as postman. There are some nice VSCode extensions that integrate a REST client directly into the editor.