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Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

62 mentions on Hacker News by 39 people: 7 stories, 55 comments · first 2022-10-22 · latest 2026-03-31

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    Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?
    story by nzach · 2023-09-28 · 3 comments
  2. Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration…
    comment by helloanoop · 2023-09-28 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account
  3. Bruno maybe? ( https://www.usebruno.com/ && https://github.com/usebruno/bruno )
    comment by pihug12 · 2023-09-27 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account
  4. …are looking for a good GUI based client that works on top of plain text files, do checkout Bruno. https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
    comment by helloanoop · 2023-03-03 · in Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans
  5. …of plain text files. And use git for version control. Currently working on a project to solve this https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
    comment by helloanoop · 2023-03-03 · in Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans
  6. If you are looking for an alternate, please checkout the new and innovative api client Bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno It's free, open-source and fresh with some radical ideas challenging the current status quo. Oh, BTW we support…
    comment by helloanoop · 2023-03-03 · in Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans
  7. …in the API Clients ecosystem as well as why collections should be saved in your api code repository https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
    comment by helloanoop · 2023-01-27
  8. …2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri, Electron, Next): https://github.com/usebruno/bruno --- You can find more here: https://alternativeto.net/software/postman/
    comment by culi · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
  9. …just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time): Restfox https://restfox.dev/ bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/ Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/ HTTP Client…
    comment by jicea · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
  10. Nice to the tools come out to save us from postman bloat I have been recently trying out bruno - https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno It allows me to save my collection on my filesystem (as folders and files) and I use git to save them in…
    comment by markcollin · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
  11. I have been recently trying https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno and it allows you to use your own version control
    comment by markcollin · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
  12. You should checkout https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno they have collections that run on top of a folder that can be synced with git
    comment by markcollin · 2022-10-22 · in Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman