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Insomnia REST Client vs Reqres: What are the differences?
Developers describe Insomnia REST Client as "The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client ๐ด". Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux. On the other hand, Reqres is detailed as "Test your front-end against a real API". A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests.
Insomnia REST Client and Reqres can be primarily classified as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Insomnia REST Client are:
- Mac, Windows and Linux
- Data import/export
- SSL client certificates
On the other hand, Reqres provides the following key features:
- Reqres does not store any of your data at all
- Fake data
- Real responses
Insomnia REST Client and Reqres are both open source tools. It seems that Insomnia REST Client with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Reqres with 944 GitHub stars and 117 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 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
Pros of Reqres
- Fake data2
- RESTful API2
- Open source1
- Always-on1
- Rapid prototyping of interfaces1
- Language agnostic1
- Hosted on Digital Ocean1
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Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
