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This is both a great post and an effective ad - I've been looking for a lighter-weight Postman alternative (and HTTPie, while nice, is no substitute for a graphical UI for such a thing). Will check HTTP Toolkit out!

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Thanks! It's a difficult balance to walk, I've taken to just trying to write great HTTP articles and ignoring the advertising angle entirely, seems to be working OK.

Do try out HTTP Toolkit and let me know what you think, but it's not a general purpose HTTP client like Postman or HTTPie. It's actually an HTTP debugger, more like Fiddler/Charles/mitmproxy, for debugging & testing. A convenient HTTP client is definitely planned as part of that eventually, but not today.

Ah, gotcha. I actually do have a good use case for that as well (and do think they could go together nicely someday), so I'll still check it out!

In case anyone wants a native (Cocoa) REST client for macOS, there's https://paw.cloud. It's paid, but they sometimes give away free licenses for retweets, which is how I got mine.

not that effective - i've also been on the lookout for this, but without your comment wouldn't have realized that's what this website was offering.

Seconded. This was a great blog post, I think a more visible plug at the end is more than justified.

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If I'm not mistaken insomnia is also using electron. I wouldn't really put it as a lightweight alternative to postman.

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