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Apigility vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
Developers describe Apigility as "The world's easiest way to create high-quality APIs". An API-based architecture is essential to agile delivery of mobile applications. Apigility provides JSON representations that can be parsed and used in any mobile framework; write for the web or native applications simultaneously!. On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client is detailed as "The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client π΄". Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Apigility and Insomnia REST Client can be primarily classified as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Apigility are:
- RESTful or RPC services
- JSON (specifically, HAL)
- Problem Details for HTTP APIs
On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client provides the following key features:
- Mac, Windows and Linux
- Data import/export
- SSL client certificates
Apigility and Insomnia REST Client are both open source tools. Insomnia REST Client with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Apigility with 477 GitHub stars and 144 GitHub forks.
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.
Pros of Apigility
- Follows Standards, Easy to Use, Design Patterns Used1
- Active dev community, full-featured, REST + RPC1
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux3
- Opensource2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
- Vim and Emacs key map0
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Cons of Apigility
Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2