Nothing beats the Jetbrains IDEs’ HTTP client for this. They should release it as a standalone product.
It’s all text based so fits nicely into your repo in the native format, no exporting etc.
It’s all text based so fits nicely into your repo in the native format, no exporting etc.
Mostly used Insomnia for a long time, until I came across Bruno. Its been a game changer for me. Requests get saved as plain text files and still provides a great UI to work with
Basically all the benefits of text based files combined with a nice UI.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-response-handling-e...
Edit: I linked to the wrong doc, that one is good for hitting an auth endpoint as a first step and then using the token on subsequent requests.
For vars (including per-env vars), the documentation is here:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/exploring-http-syntax.ht...
Only issue I really have with it recently is that graphql requests are poorly documented and wonky as hell and you literally have to fight the ide to edit the query
Otherwise it's been pretty great.
Also I have nothing to do with intellij's company besides being a happily paying customer for many years.