I've never understood the point of postman. I usually just use curl
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depends on the size of your team I guess? Postman used to really be the default API client for serious API testing. https://kaluvuri.com/blog/when-the-category-leader-stalls/
And yes curl is great and is a big inspiration for Voiden. In fact we built it inspired by curl and obsidian.
The problem I see with curl is that real API work is almost never just one request typed into a terminal like some kind of beautifully minimalist Unix haiku. It involves auth, environments, copied headers, reused payload fragments, request chains, documentation, testing, debugging, sharing examples with teammates, reviewing changes in Git, and trying not to break prod because you forgot to swap one token or one base URL.
At that point you can not "just use curl" right?. You use curl plus other things. Curl plus shell scripts, curl plus notes, curl plus env files, plus copied commands from Slack, plus random JSON files, plus tribal knowledge etc etc.. Which is fine I guess but isnt it at some point super annoying and hard to collaborate on? That is the gap that I see this tool (Voiden) trying to solve.
So for me it is not “curl vs Voiden.” curl is a low-level execution tool. Voiden is a workspace for actual API work: writing requests, organizing them, reusing pieces, documenting them, testing them, versioning them in Git, and not duplicating the same headers/body/auth setup 45 times :)
does this resonate?
Yeah but it does not have a GUI /s
More seriously, at work we mainly use it for QA. Now we could just switch to HTTP files (like httpYak) for something free and not USA based.
Just fyi - voiden too is not us based.
Thx, I'll check it out later ^^
Same, though recently I've been using httpie which gives a bit of a cleaner cli.
Sweet, I was searching for something like this (and found something I wasn't happy with). Will check out! 💖
what do you currently use? what are the limitations of what you tried and were not happy with?
Been using insomnia and I haven't really liked the direction they're going. Is there any tool to migrate my projects?
This is cool! I've been using Bruno for a while now as an alternative. Maybe I'll give this a go.
Awesome - would love some feedback !
This looks super cool, but beyond my skill level to enjoy.