Intellijs build in HTTP client is good enough for me to use it for my testing purposes and even for short one-off thing I previously might've done with curl.

I wonder how hard it'd be to make a PWA and host it on GitHub 🤔 Maybe this would be a good yet-another-hobby-project-ill-never-complete to pick up

Fuck Postman. curl 4 life.

Use restfox

God fucking knows. Probably so they can sell your data.

Postman doesn't force you to log in, though it does make it sound like you are missing out on a world of "amazing" possibilities.

For a lot of use cases I find .http files very convenient. Here is a documentation from Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-files?view=aspnetcore-8.0

There is some standard around the .http extension so they work in many IDEs and they can be implemented into CI pipelines. The Microsoft documentation should be enough, though, to get you started.

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

There is also https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch but the absence of offline local client was always a blocker

It seems that way with a lot of REST clients for whatever reason.

It starts off as what we all want - a simple rest client, maybe storing environments and requests

Then companies start building more features to try and create a whole community or ecosystem

They start asking for account creation. Then team creation to share with your team. Then an enterprise plan. Then they gimp the original features and paywall them.

Looking at you, Postman, Insomnia, Thunderclient

@lorty I feel your pain; I had to switch from Postman to Insomnia because I couldn't use the local application anymore without creating an account, but even Insomnia is pushing to create an account somewhere.