#Insomnia api vs postman install#
To install search for humao.rest-client in the extensions directory.Ĭreate a file with. That way it's easy to do versioning, track changes and share this file with others. When I work on a project which contains REST APIs (recently almost all of them), I create reqs.http file and put all relevant HTTP requests into it. VS Code! The amount of extensions that exist for this editor/IDE is incredible, and it's no wonder that someone has built a REST Client for Visual Studio Code.įree, supports tabs (duh), user interface is just text, has auto-complete, no unnecessary functionality. I will probably keep using it for quick requests when I just need to try an API. You can create 5 items per collection and have 1 collection without going Premium. Since there are no tabs, collections are the only way I found to persist multiple requests. Feature-wise aspires to be on par with Postman and eventually surpass it.įree version is limited in the amount of "items" (= requests) you can keep in a collection. Doesn't use tabs and the interface design is a bit confusing. Was built natively to tackle the performance problem of Electron (consumes 40 MB of RAM compared to Postman's 350 MB). It now has a sleek modern Windows UI and supports tabs. A lot has changed in a year! Nightingale has matured. Has easy to use interface with many features I don't need (runner, collections, sharing, environments, online sync etc.). Free, slow to start-up, memory intensive, based on Electron. Industry standard, probably everybody knows it.
#Insomnia api vs postman code#
With Postman becoming a sluggish overkill for my needs I chose Nightingale REST client for quick API testing and REST client extension for Visual Studio Code for project work. While I love sleeping, this is about Representational State Transfer (REST), not human resting. Warning: Don't let the title of this article lead you astray. That's why I went to search for a replacement.
To test those APIs I've been using Postman, but it wasn't always a good experience - requests are difficult to share, the app itself is slow and sometimes, after an update, loses data. I'm a huge fan of the modern move to separate frontends and backends with APIs and HTTP(S) communication.
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