Postman Alternatives for Testing an API

[Community_Team]

A discussion came up in our Hack the Galaxy Tech Talks about any alternatives to Postman for testing APIs.

Here’s some alternatives that one of our team members also posted.

• Testfully
• Insomnia
• Hoppscotch
• Paw
• Thunder Client
• Firecamp
• TestMace
• Nightingale

Have you used any of these? What are some other alternatives you can think of?

There’s also a helpful Comparison table included on this post.

We do have a Postman collection here if you want to get started to make your first API with Rapyd.

Source: https://testfully.io/blog/top-5-postman-alternatives

[Community_Team]

I haven’t used any besides Postman, but I have planned to try Thunder Client, a plugin extension in Visual Studio Code.

[a_shokn]

Have you tried out Swagger or LoopBack for testing ?

[Community_Team]

thanks, I’ve played around with Swagger’s resources, they’re great for API mocks. Loopback I have not yet.

I’ve seen more docs with a API testing function on their API refs. Like a “try it” function. What do you think of this?