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For those who are using Emacs, https://github.com/federicotdn/verb provides similar UX, I have been using it as a postman alternative for quite some time.

I completely agree with this take. There's an immense feeling of calm when your digital life revolves around files you completely own. I've managed my entire productivity around a single org-mode file for the bast five years and it perfectly adapts to my needs. Add on top of that syncthing and I have a robust system I can use on mobile that works perfectly for me. I feel I could leave and come back in 20 years and still use my org-mode productivity file, Emms[1] playlist, verb[2] HTTP request book, etc. exactly the same as I left off. What would my data in Notion, Postman, etc. all look like in 20 years if left unattended? [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/ [2] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Or org+verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

The "HTTP" format proposed in the article is the same we use with Hurl [1], an Open Source HTTP CLI based on plain text. POST http://httpbingo.org/anything/chat content-type: application/json { "message": "Hello!" } We extend it a bit to add checks on response, and add request chaining, but it's basically HTTP 1.x as this article shows it. A lot of others tools have the same idea, with minor differences: - Hurl (I'm one of the maintainer) https://hurl.dev - HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... - httpYac https://httpyac.github.io - restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el - REST Client https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient - verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb And many more... Worth noting, other tools have taken the YAML route (like Step CI https://stepci.co

have you checked this https://github.com/federicotdn/verb . Its emacs package and i am able to write and test api's with text files.

There's also verb [1], which extends Org mode. [1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Not as usable for testing, but verb.el[1] is a great tool for doing something very similar in org-mode [1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I 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 https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... Hurl https://hurl.dev Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Kreya https://kreya.app Milkman https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman Nap https://github.com/davesheldon/nap Paw https://paw.cloud restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el REST Client https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient Socketfox https://socketfox.dev Step CI https://stepci.com vim-http-client https://github.com/aquach/vim-http-client vscode-restclient https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

If you live in Emacs, there is the amazing verb package that does the same, it supports org-mode primarily and also integrates with org-babel nicely. https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

> I want something much simpler, so I use VS code with a "REST Client" plugin I follow the same approach. Emacs, Verb[0] and org-mode. An alternative to Verb would be restclient.el[1] but I like Verb more because it works as an extension to org-mode which is great for documentation. [0] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb [1] https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

if you are using emacs you can also give this a shot https://github.com/federicotdn/verb It lets you write the api, test it and generate the documentation all from the same source of truth file.

Great post, with lots of interesting things to improve my workflow! My progression has been 1) rest client 2) org-mode with blocks 3) verb-mode. However, I think most of what is mentioned can be applied equally to verb-mode, which sort of a DSL built on top of org-mode. [1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

After having used postman for sometime, I realized it favors mouse click based workflow and is very resource heavy. I have switched to emacs verb[1] package and combined with some custom function for env (staging/local) management and org-roam for file management, it's much more comfortable to use. I don't have to learn a new set of shortcuts and can use all the other emacs features. [1]: https://github.com/federicotdn/verb