this is the first meme I have ever made (yes I am that old) - so be gentle :)
what does being modern mean to you?
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What do you mean by modern api client? Postman? Try bruno.
this is the “joke”. that every API client calls themseleves modern without this essentially meaning much.
and certainly not, I dont mean Postman. But this is the easy answer. What I also mean is that many of the tools that came as a response to Postman being “old fashioned” are basically mimicking the same things or principles with a few things here and there.
so everything is like “postman but with a better XYZ feature” or “Postman but open source”…
Bruno does not have any of the characteristic in the meme you shared. And still I do not understand what do you mean by modern api client. Every single application using an API is an API client. Do you mean stuff like curl or postman or things like first party SDKs or what?
yes, sorry for the confusion - yes I mean API Client tool - postman, insomnia etc. etc.
- bruno does have a paywall last time I checked :) but the point is not to have tool debates :) my main point is around overall philosophies and ways that new things are like older things with a small twist.
There is no paywall in Bruno, nor login, in the open source version. It is file system based, with no external dependency.
What paywall? I’m using it for free…
your first? really! Don Juan of the masses and the memes
haha I dont know how to take this
yessssss
Oh my god my biggest pet peeve is every single new project awarding itself “modern, lightweight, blazing fast”. Seeing these words actually negatively affects my perception of your new super cool project. Along with the fucking emojis.
aka:
Modern: “I couldn’t understand the codebase of the previous solution, so I rewrote it using stuff I’m familiar with”
Lightweight: “Featureless/no features that I don’t use”
Blazing fast: “Doesn’t have any edge cases handled yet”
Just moved to Linux and wanted to test an api. Opened Software Manager and installed Resonance. It looks like there are Mac and Windows versions. It was simple and clean, and did what I needed to get done. I have to admit, when I clicked to install, I was wondering what kind of hoops I was fixing to run into to use it. None. There were no hoops.
Insomnia > Postman.
I switched to Insomnia around 2021 when Postman started enshittifying and found I liked it a lot more. Insomnia has also been relatively enshittified unfortunately, but it feels like it’s to a lesser extent.
Bruno > Insomnia
Dropped insomnia after it started to ask me to login and collaborate on things
Insomnia user here, it is worth moving to Bruno?
100% won’t regret it
Postman was great when it made APIs simple, but over time all the accounts, cloud sync, and extra features kind of slowed down the core workflow. And then a lot of clients just ended up copying that model instead of rethinking it.
On the optimistic side we are seeing some stuff that want to rethink this: tools like Voiden and Yaak with a few new approaches like Git-native workflows, reusable request pieces, more composable setups basically making API work feel more like actual dev work again.
