Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

https://lemmy.world/post/43922166

Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman - Lemmy.World

Voiden is an offline-first, git-native API tool built on Markdown - and it very intentionally didn’t start as “let’s build a better Postman”. Over time, API tooling became heavyweight: cloud dependencies for local work, forced accounts, proprietary formats, and workflows that break the moment you’re offline. Testing a localhost API shouldn’t need an internet connection. So we asked a simple question: What if an API tool respected how developers already work? That led to a few core ideas: - Offline-first, no accounts, no telemetry - Git as the source of truth - Specs, tests, and docs living together in Markdown We opensourced Voiden because extensibility without openness just shifts the bottleneck. If workflows should be transparent, the tool should be too. Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden [https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden] Download here : https://voiden.md/download [https://voiden.md/download]

i’ve been looking for a silver bullet in this space. hurl[1] seems promising as well. i feel like Bruno has always been jank, and going 1.0 didn’t help. at work i’ve stuck to vibe coding my API test code with a stack of TOML configs, that way i get to reuse/test my client code as well.

what i want is something version controllable with lightweight dependencies that i can automate easily. i’m afraid that discounts this project. not going to ask my team to download Yet Another Electron API client UI. i’m hesitant to introduce hurl, which can at least be scripted.

1: hurl.dev

Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.

That’s cool. I’ll look into that