Hacker News: kermire

New comment by kermire in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

kermire — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:25:07 +0000

Restfox [1] is worth checking out. It's fully offline and lets you version control your collections with git or any sync tool you prefer. The postman import is well tested and the app also allows you to export back to Postman collections.

Disclaimer: I maintain it.

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

New comment by kermire in "Lezer: A parsing system for CodeMirror, inspired by Tree-sitter"

kermire — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:47:54 +0000

Not as extensive as the previous poster. I wrote a small custom component wrapper a while back: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/code-mirror-custom-element.

New comment by kermire in "If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?"

kermire — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:21:52 +0000

The main limitation of web components for me is that all data needs to be passed to the component attributes as strings. Wish we could pass objects and arrays without JSON.stringify-ing them.

New comment by kermire in "Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed]"

kermire — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:03:43 +0000

Overall search quality has been declining on all search engines. Maybe there's too much spam. Saw an entertaining video about it yesterday that echoes how I feel when I google stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY. It's so hard to find content written by humans these days. Seems like only the top sites are being indexed.

New comment by kermire in "Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability"

kermire — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:25:21 +0000

There's https://restfox.dev which I built.

To stay unbiased, here's a list of other web based postman alternatives:

- https://hoppscotch.io (this is the most popular one)

- https://httpie.io/app

Bun v0.6.7

kermire — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 17:23:36 +0000

Article URL: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v0.6.7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178571

Points: 1

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New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Postman and Insomnia"

kermire — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:19:34 +0000

You can try https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox. It's a web based HTTP client based on Postman and Insomnia.

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer for it.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:42:57 +0000

I'm using the fetch API for making requests and fetch sadly forbids the Cookie header from getting passed. Will be looking into how I can bypass this.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:44:33 +0000

Haha thanks. Didn't think it could be interpreted like that :D

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:40:40 +0000

I definitely intend to add web socket support eventually. Meanwhile, there's https://socketfox.dev which I made for my friends. You can use it to test web sockets.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:07:34 +0000

Thank you. Will look into preventing the right click requirement and provide an alternative for that.

It should be saving your requests automatically. Maybe your browser is blocking IndexedDB somehow? That's what's used by the application to store the data locally. Also do make sure you're not in incognito mode, as changes will be lost once you're out of it.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:03:04 +0000

Firefox with ublock origin should not cause any issues. The issue might be caused by Firefox's private window implementation which does not allow IndexedDB operations, which is what Restfox uses for storing the data of the application locally.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:11:35 +0000

That's very odd. Will look into this.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:09:34 +0000

Definitely something I'll be implementing soon. Importing and exporting curl commands is a good feature to have. Thanks for the feature suggestion.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:08:38 +0000

Thank you. The UI is not currently built with mobile in mind. I have been thinking of implementing a responsive layout but haven't had the time to do it.

I did not know about the GitHub star login thing. Will try to rectify it when I can. Thanks for all your UX notes.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman"

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:05:28 +0000

Previous reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671805

Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

kermire — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:06:31 +0000

Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. There have been lots of improvements and fixes since the last release.

Quick list of features:

  - Workspaces
  - Tabs
  - Nested Folders
  - Lots of context menus
  - Response history
  - Plugins
  - Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary
  - Chrome and Firefox extension to bypass CORS restrictions
  - Desktop builds for all platforms
  - GraphQL support
  - Import collections exported from Postman and Insomnia
  - Simple user friendly interface

I built this because I love Insomnia but wanted a portable version that I could run in the browser.

If you're tired of Postman's bloated interface and slow startup times, do give this a try.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33287137

Points: 758

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New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman"

kermire — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:01:41 +0000

I haven't used hoppscotch much. But from what I know:

1) Both Restfox and Hoppscotch run completely within the browser without needing a backend server to process the http requests.

2) Restfox has a plugin system. Hoppscotch currently does not have a plugin system but they're in the process of adding it.

3) Hoppscotch doesn't support for nested environment variables since it follows Postman rather than Insomnia.

4) Restfox can import exports from Postman and Insomnia. Hoppscotch can also do this but you might struggle to find their import button.

5) Restfox does not have GraphQL or WebSocket support.

6) Compared to Hoppscotch, you'll notice the UI is much more straightforward and gets out of your way. Gives you the familiarity of the desktop http clients you're used to. But this is my personal opinion.

New comment by kermire in "Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman"

kermire — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 03:00:17 +0000

Thanks. There's no server behind it. It runs completely in the browser.

Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman

kermire — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:16:16 +0000

Hey HN, I built this because I wanted a portable version of Insomnia I could access anywhere I am, without installing anything. The application is a PWA, so it will not load resources again after the first load, unless there's an update. It uses IndexedDB and loads quite fast even with a lot of nested requests and folders.

Import from Postman and Insomnia is available making it easy to import your pre-existing request collections.

Only limitation is that it only supports CORS enabled endpoints for now. I plan to add cors proxy support later on. There is of course the electron build (https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/releases/tag/v0.0.1), which can be used to bypass cors but that kinda defeats the portability of the app but it is an option.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32665347

Points: 3

# Comments: 4