The default API tooling that comes to your mind is Postman.
Postman is cloud based - the other offline alternatives are on their way to enshittification.
Is there any solution to the problem or we should all default to curl.
The default API tooling that comes to your mind is Postman.
Postman is cloud based - the other offline alternatives are on their way to enshittification.
Is there any solution to the problem or we should all default to curl.
But then how did Postman became so popular - we can’t deny it became the default.
Point and drool as opposed to learning cli commands.
CLI is so easy. You learn the basic concepts and can use thousands of tools.
curl is a very common tool. It’s installed everywhere, probably also on the postman servers… lol
So did windows in the business world. Just because it’s default doesn’t mean it’s the best option. People will take a pile of poop with a pretty veneer that does 90% of the work over the correct tool with a leaning curve.
But that was a good while ago. And it was not a cloud thing at the time it was popular.
There are many alternatives now.