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insomnia just enshittified itself and requires cloud login like postman, and force upgrades you from the old version even if you disable updates. this blocked me at work today.

this client looks great, wanted to boost it here in case anyone else got screwed by Insomnia this morning.

    • lonewalkOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I saw that too, but I couldn’t tell if it was a community or corporate backed thing; I also don’t like that it’s only available through a browser (I know Bruno is Electron, but having a separate desktop app is nice to me)

      At minimum Hoppscotch sells some kind of Enterprise Edition https://docs.hoppscotch.io/documentation/self-host/enterprise-edition/getting-started

      I don’t know the details, but I’ve just gotten burned too much. Bruno seems genuinely fully libre, no bs, so I’m hoping that it gets more traction.

  • gkpy@feddit.de
    2·
    9 months ago

    if i wasn’t a terminal person, this looks ideal! no reinventing the wheel for lock-in’s (read business model) sake…

    the only thing i don’t like here is their custom bru format. json, yaml or any other standardised markup fit their manifesto better as well imo

    • lonewalkOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I’m annoyed by this as I’m looking to script a rudimentary Bruno->postman tool, so I won’t be blocked at work on Monday. means I need to dig into their tooling.

      they have an internal bru2json method that is used when exporting a collection into a single file, so I wonder what the benefit is keeping it in the proprietary format at all. maybe it makes it a bit easier to edit by hand, which is a supported use case, but there’s JSON tooling to enable good autocompletes/schemas iirc

      EDIT: I has made script (very wip) https://github.com/wtpisaac/bruno2postman

    • lonewalkOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      No problem. Trying to raise awareness of this tool bc Insomnia totally screwed me up at work today.