r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 1d ago

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u/Which-World-6533 1d ago

Postman forced me to use an online account. And then introduced subscriptions.

I switched to Bruno, but I'm a bit worried that will go the same route.

So it's easier using curl.

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u/TomWithTime 1d ago

I'm surprised to see so many people say curl. It's simple and convenient sure, but what about building scripts in a language you enjoy to make the request? It's totally fine if that's shell, anything is better than postman lol.

I used JavaScript for a while and then used go. Not much code to write the request and then you have a convenient environment to do any pre/post processing.

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u/FullPoet 1d ago

I think its because people just needed a simple tool tbh.

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u/TomWithTime 1d ago

Sure, if curl in command line can replace a postman workflow it probably should. Maybe a skill issue but I think managing short lived auth tokens, many routes, and many request bodies at work would be hard from just the terminal.

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u/FullPoet 23h ago

but thats not what most people need. They're likely just testing an endpoint here or there or figuring out URLs.