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API Blueprint vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
- API Blueprint: API Blueprint is a high-level API design language that allows for easy API documentation generation using a simple Markdown format. It focuses on the design aspect, providing a clear and concise way to define endpoints, parameters, and responses without getting into implementation details.
- Insomnia REST Client: Insomnia REST Client is a comprehensive tool for designing, testing, and troubleshooting APIs. It provides a user-friendly interface that allows for direct interaction with APIs, including sending requests, inspecting responses, and debugging HTTP traffic. It goes beyond just documentation to offer a complete API development environment.
In Summary, API Blueprint is primarily focused on API design and documentation, while Insomnia REST Client offers a broader set of tools for API development and testing.
Decisions about API Blueprint and Insomnia REST Client
Stephen Fox
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Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.
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- Easy to use1
- Ecosystem of tools1
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux4
- Opensource3
- Vim and Emacs key map2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
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Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
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What is API Blueprint?
API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.
What is Insomnia REST Client?
Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
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What are some alternatives to API Blueprint and Insomnia REST Client?
RAML
RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.
Apiary
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Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Stack Overflow
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