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Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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]

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wet_bones Mar 6

All of that when I can just keep using emacs’ https://melpa.org/#/restclient.

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banshee Mar 7

I’ve been enjoying verb.

GitHub - federicotdn/verb: HTTP client for Emacs

HTTP client for Emacs. Contribute to federicotdn/verb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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dafalcon Mar 7

quite cool - i think voiden is similar in premise to verb - but it is more easier to manage for non emacs folks. But i’ll check it out - emcas will bring back the ptsd from my phd days of writing my thesis on it :D

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banshee

I really think tools like voiden, hurl, and verb make sense. They make it easier to troubleshoot a system later or to share requests with other developers without leaving the repo. The only real challenge becomes handling authentication scenarios without putting secrets in plain text.

Speaking of writing a thesis, I imagine that leaves plenty of room for PTSD! I personally like the direnv support for emacs much more than other environments, and I’ve become a big fan of ripgrep and fuzzy finding.