Postman vscode code#

You can create 5 items per collection and have 1 collection without going Premium. Since there are no tabs, collections are the only way I found to persist multiple requests.

Feature-wise aspires to be on par with Postman and eventually surpass it.įree version is limited in the amount of 'items' (= requests) you can keep in a collection. Doesn't use tabs and the interface design is a bit confusing. Was built natively to tackle the performance problem of Electron (consumes 40 MB of RAM compared to Postman's 350 MB). It now has a sleek modern Windows UI and supports tabs. A lot has changed in a year! Nightingale has matured. Has easy to use interface with many features I don't need (runner, collections, sharing, environments, online sync etc.). Free, slow to start-up, memory intensive, based on Electron. Industry standard, probably everybody knows it.

Postman vscode code#

With Postman becoming a sluggish overkill for my needs I chose Nightingale REST client for quick API testing and REST client extension for Visual Studio Code for project work. While I love sleeping, this is about Representational State Transfer (REST), not human resting. Warning: Don't let the title of this article lead you astray. That's why I went to search for a replacement.

To test those APIs I've been using Postman, but it wasn't always a good experience - requests are difficult to share, the app itself is slow and sometimes, after an update, loses data. I'm a huge fan of the modern move to separate frontends and backends with APIs and HTTP(S) communication.