Restfox

Restfox [1] is worth checking out. It's fully offline and lets you version control your collections with git or any sync tool you prefer. The postman import is well tested and the app also allows you to export back to Postman collections. Disclaimer: I maintain it. [1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

I personally enjoy using restfox, OSS and in browser, it does the job well. * web app: https://restfox.dev/ * repo: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

No actually I thoroughly researched this, and compiled a list of every Postman alternative I could find, and tried them all. This was my list at the time: https://paw.cloud/ https://retool.com/ https://insomnia.rest/products/insomnia https://httpie.io/product https://github.com/sharat87/prestige https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox https://hoppscotch.io/ https://github.com/getezy/ezy

I'm pretty sure restfox (https://restfox.dev) was shared on HN before. Very similar to postman. https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork? Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl Upd: added links

Restfox has analytics with no opt out currently for anyone who cares.[1] [1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/issues/62

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh work

Given the recent update[0] pushed by the Insomnia team I am now looking for alternatives. For now the best alternative I've found is Bruno[1]. But sadly it does not support gRPC. Does anyone have a better solution? These are some options I've looked into: - https://hoppscotch.io/ - https://hurl.dev/ - https://recipeui.com/ - https://kreya.app/ - https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox [0] - https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585 [1] - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

Restfox [1] has a similar UI to insomnia and works well. Not affiliated with Restfox [1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Well more than anything, 90% of the use cases are people using it as essentially a GUI CURL. There's countless open source alternatives [1] [2]. They can't ever charge too much money because the space isn't exactly hard to enter. [1] https://github.com/Kong/insomnia [2] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

You can try https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox. It's a web based HTTP client based on Postman and Insomnia. Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer for it.

So the most popular open-source Postman alternatives seem to be HoppScotch (47.7k stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia Restfox (405 stars, 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/

try to `fetch('https://www.google.com')` from console on a few different websites and you'll see either CSP errors or the same CORS errors that come up in restfox. all the extension does is send the request with the runtime api to get around the (good and reasonable) security constraints on web pages loaded over http: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/tree/main/packages/b...

Hey HN, I built this because I wanted a portable version of Insomnia I could access anywhere I am, without installing anything. The application is a PWA, so it will not load resources again after the first load, unless there's an update. It uses IndexedDB and loads quite fast even with a lot of nested requests and folders. Import from Postman and Insomnia is available making it easy to import your pre-existing request collections. Only limitation is that it only supports CORS enabled endpoints for now. I plan to add cors proxy support later on. There is of course the electron build (https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/releases/tag/v0.0.1), which can be used to bypass cors but that kinda defeats the portability of the app but it is an option. GitHub repo: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox