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api client
SHOW HN2021
117points
38comments
#449of 2,533 in 2021
Top 18%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
8 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.44.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Clean text plus GUI combination and split results pane
From 2 comments
I love this! Excellent combination of GUI and textarea. Does it keep working if you cmd+save it locally?
nexuist on HNHey, thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, there isn't yet an offline version of this, although I've wanted to do one for the longest of times. But thanks for mentioning, it…
sharat87 on HN
Labour of love, good idea
From 2 comments
This is a really great idea. Well done!
tony-allan on HNThis is clearly a labour of love. Well done, congrats on releasing :)
scrollaway on HN
Objections
No offline version yet
From 2 comments
This is great. It's an alternative for those who don't want a full IDE or are just getting started with API work. (I hope there's a fully offline version.) Also reminds me of…
paco3346 on HNHey, thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, there isn't yet an offline version of this, although I've wanted to do one for the longest of times. But thanks for mentioning, it…
sharat87 on HN
Requests
OAuth2 calls before requests
From 1 comment
Very nice! One feature of postman/hoppscotch[0] is that it makes it easy to do oauth2 calls PRIOR to hitting the actual desired endpoint. If you're itching to add new features…
anotherhue on HN
Headless test runner and JS assertions
From 1 comment
This is really cool! Would be interested to see if the JavaScript blocks could be used to essentially run integration tests using something like this, so you could assert that…
opheliate on HN
GraphQL support
From 1 comment
Nice tool it will be more nicer if it have graphql.
tanaypingalkar on HN
Gist or GitHub and Dropbox persistence
From 2 comments
That's neat! I like the workbook style for stashing snippets and re-running them, or even for documenting something and sharing it with someone else. Is there a way to persist my…
cldellow on HN> If it would be able to do the XHR calls on file:// protocol As long as the endpoint being fetched returns the correct CORS headers, fetch should work on file:// pages. You just…
nexuist on HN
Questions
What workflow makes it better than curl or python-requests
From 1 comment
What do you use it for? The syntax looks simple, and the results are clearly formatted - just trying to understand what kind of workflow makes this favorable to something like…
samvher on HN
Whether it works offline or saved locally
From 2 comments
I love this! Excellent combination of GUI and textarea. Does it keep working if you cmd+save it locally?
nexuist on HNThis is great. It's an alternative for those who don't want a full IDE or are just getting started with API work. (I hope there's a fully offline version.) Also reminds me of…
paco3346 on HN
Alternatives named
VS Code REST Client extension
From 2 comments
I use something very similar for a very long time already in vcode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client
Gys on HNYeah came here to say the same thing, the VS Code HTTP Client extension is fantastic.. Lets you save your requests alongside your code, you can even define variables and do…
sbarre on HN
Emacs restclient.el and verb-mode
From 2 comments
A very similar project for Emacs users: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
alanpearce on HNRest client is great, but a lot of the cool (emacs) kids have moved over to verb-mode [1]. To be fair, you can probably achieve something similar with org-mode and rest-client,…
marco_craveiro on HN
Postman, Insomnia and Hoppscotch
From 2 comments
Very nice! One feature of postman/hoppscotch[0] is that it makes it easy to do oauth2 calls PRIOR to hitting the actual desired endpoint. If you're itching to add new features…
anotherhue on HNVery nice. I’ve been using insomnia && postman, but I always thought a text based tool would go with the other tools I’m using (sublime and terminal) for developing APIs. Will…
RileyJames on HN
JetBrains HTTP client
From 1 comment
This is great. It's an alternative for those who don't want a full IDE or are just getting started with API work. (I hope there's a fully offline version.) Also reminds me of…
paco3346 on HN