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Restfox [1] is worth checking out. It's fully offline and lets you version control your collections with git or any sync tool you prefer. The postman import is well tested and the app also allows you to export back to Postman collections.

Disclaimer: I maintain it.

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Not as extensive as the previous poster. I wrote a small custom component wrapper a while back: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/code-mirror-custom-element.

The main limitation of web components for me is that all data needs to be passed to the component attributes as strings. Wish we could pass objects and arrays without JSON.stringify-ing them.

Overall search quality has been declining on all search engines. Maybe there's too much spam. Saw an entertaining video about it yesterday that echoes how I feel when I google stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY. It's so hard to find content written by humans these days. Seems like only the top sites are being indexed.

There's https://restfox.dev which I built.

To stay unbiased, here's a list of other web based postman alternatives:

- https://hoppscotch.io (this is the most popular one)

- https://httpie.io/app

You can try https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox. It's a web based HTTP client based on Postman and Insomnia.

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer for it.

I'm using the fetch API for making requests and fetch sadly forbids the Cookie header from getting passed. Will be looking into how I can bypass this.

Haha thanks. Didn't think it could be interpreted like that :D

I definitely intend to add web socket support eventually. Meanwhile, there's https://socketfox.dev which I made for my friends. You can use it to test web sockets.

Thank you. Will look into preventing the right click requirement and provide an alternative for that.

It should be saving your requests automatically. Maybe your browser is blocking IndexedDB somehow? That's what's used by the application to store the data locally. Also do make sure you're not in incognito mode, as changes will be lost once you're out of it.

Firefox with ublock origin should not cause any issues. The issue might be caused by Firefox's private window implementation which does not allow IndexedDB operations, which is what Restfox uses for storing the data of the application locally.

That's very odd. Will look into this.

Definitely something I'll be implementing soon. Importing and exporting curl commands is a good feature to have. Thanks for the feature suggestion.

Thank you. The UI is not currently built with mobile in mind. I have been thinking of implementing a responsive layout but haven't had the time to do it.

I did not know about the GitHub star login thing. Will try to rectify it when I can. Thanks for all your UX notes.

Previous reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671805

I haven't used hoppscotch much. But from what I know:

1) Both Restfox and Hoppscotch run completely within the browser without needing a backend server to process the http requests.

2) Restfox has a plugin system. Hoppscotch currently does not have a plugin system but they're in the process of adding it.

3) Hoppscotch doesn't support for nested environment variables since it follows Postman rather than Insomnia.

4) Restfox can import exports from Postman and Insomnia. Hoppscotch can also do this but you might struggle to find their import button.

5) Restfox does not have GraphQL or WebSocket support.

6) Compared to Hoppscotch, you'll notice the UI is much more straightforward and gets out of your way. Gives you the familiarity of the desktop http clients you're used to. But this is my personal opinion.

Thanks. There's no server behind it. It runs completely in the browser.

Thanks :)

taskfile.dev looks quite useful for project specific stuff.

You're right. Can't argue with that. In the end, this is just another interface to do the same thing in a different way.

Haha yes, that works too.

For clarification. For running a set of commands, one can just use a shell script. This does a little more that. This allows you to have a set of commands under a group and a sub group in a single yaml file, for easy access.

This is more a centralized shortcut to manage multiple command sets.

Maybe you're looking for this: https://github.com/Qovery/Replibyte.

Same, even I had to rename my user folder to not have a space because so many tools were breaking.

Seriously. I don't know how they're bypassing https.

I actually use tab groups. Have been using for a long time and really like having the ability to group tabs. What's the issue with it?

You haven't mentioned what headset you're using. This has become less of an issue with headsets like quest 2.

You're right. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141.

I really like this comment. Very rarely do people understand that there are reasons for people seeking escape. All addictions seem to be a way to deal with some issue they are facing. If the root cause is fixed, the problem should be solved. People would rather blame technology rather than understand human beings. It's an easier route to take.

Alternate url: https://cssgridgarden.com/

Though I do like the culture of taking photos instead of experiencing the moment, I do not think social media is the new smoking. People like to be distracted and absorbed. Social media is just an option. There are a dozen other alternatives. It has a different effect on different people. Some get really into it but there are others who just don't care. Fear mongering is easy when it sounds believable. I refuse to accept the equivalence until there's some unbiased research backing these claims.

I agree. The UI is so much better and more streamlined. I was also using Postman before I found this. It's really useful.