alt Hacker NewsLots of discussion about less terrible alternatives to postman. For those already using a Jetbrains IDE there's a builtin rest client that works well. I haven't used it for anything too complicated, but for routine stuff where you need to hit an endpoint and fiddle with the payload and headers it's great.
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rhdunn • today at 6:35 PM
The JetBrains IDE, Visual Studio, and VS Code all support http files as well, which can be checked into an application.
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> [for every] Jetbrains IDE there's a builtin rest client that works well
There's also one available as a major mode for Emacs: https://melpa.org/#/restclient
If the command line is acceptable but you want more of a focus on usability than curl has, there's httpie (https://httpie.io/) and its clone xh (https://github.com/ducaale/xh).