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Bun v0.6.7

bun.sh
1 points·by kermire·il y a 3 ans·0 comments

Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

restfox.dev
758 points·by kermire·il y a 4 ans·182 comments

Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman

restfox.dev
3 points·by kermire·il y a 4 ans·4 comments

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kermire
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
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
kermire
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
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
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Haha thanks. Didn't think it could be interpreted like that :D
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
That's very odd. Will look into this.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Definitely something I'll be implementing soon. Importing and exporting curl commands is a good feature to have. Thanks for the feature suggestion.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Previous reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671805
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
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.
kermire
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Thanks. There's no server behind it. It runs completely in the browser.