any good free non electron alternatives for postman on mac

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flat-morning-91037 · Answer

is paid is free but okayish

thousands-exabyte-97089 · Answer

loud-glass-33663 · Answer

There is <https insomnia rest download|Insomnia> I am not sure about it s electron status It was not bad to use Postman feels quite bloated now

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

Insomnia is electron grimacing

thousands-finland-78878 · Answer

<https insomnia rest |https insomnia rest > This is works good Has a paid version also but free version does everything most people need No need to sign up also

clever-advantage-29037 · Answer

Emacs + org mode

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

Curl + Jq stuck out tongue

chilly-lock-4986 · Answer

there s httpie too for cli but it gets complex to manage while checking multiple endpoints

chilly-lock-4986 · Answer

postman is bloated to a point where it becomes unusuable when i ve to use multiple tabs

chilly-lock-4986 · Answer

cocoa rest client seems pretty snappy w multiple tabs i ll give insomnia a try too irrespective of electron and see how it goes

helpful-memory-62940 · Answer

Thunder client extension in VS Code Works like charm sparkles

wonderful-greece-5807 · Answer

lol only one first message s suggestion are non electron This is a proxy to know how much JS has taken over the app development

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

I m a frontend engineer and I despise existence of Electron It is an abomination that shouldn t exist VS Code is only acceptable Electron implementation but then MS has done a lot of work to make it performant

clever-advantage-29037 · Answer

< wonderful greece 5807> emacs is non electron

wonderful-greece-5807 · Answer

Haha yes I agree Native app development is now becoming niche imo The only electron app I like is VSCode it is the only one that I found to be engineered really well

wonderful-greece-5807 · Answer

< clever advantage 29037> I know but it s only for already emacs users It bubbles up the complexity smile

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

I generally blame Electron s existence and lack of native app development on Sublime Text as that editor in pre 2015 caused the situations that led to creation of Electron

chilly-lock-4986 · Answer

i see the trend reversing now for good with most of the new products coming as native instead of electron