Insomnia REST Client vs Sandbox

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Insomnia REST Client

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Insomnia REST Client vs Sandbox: What are the differences?

What is Insomnia REST Client? The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴. Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

What is Sandbox? Quick and easy mock RESTful API and SOAP webservices. Quickly mock RESTful API or SOAP web-services with simple or dynamic responses, and fault injection to simulate real application behaviour.

Insomnia REST Client and Sandbox can be categorized as "API" tools.

Insomnia REST Client and Sandbox are both open source tools. Insomnia REST Client with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Sandbox with 161 GitHub stars and 28 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Insomnia REST Client and Sandbox
Stephen Fox
Artificial Intelligence Fellow · | 1 upvote · 331.1K views

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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Pros of Insomnia REST Client
Pros of Sandbox
  • 16
    Easy to work with
  • 11
    Great user interface
  • 6
    Works with GraphQL
  • 4
    Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux
  • 3
    Opensource
  • 2
    Vim and Emacs key map
  • 2
    Preserves request templates
  • 0
    Does not have history feature
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    Cons of Insomnia REST Client
    Cons of Sandbox
    • 4
      Do not have team sharing options
    • 2
      Do not store credentials in HTTP
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      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.

      What is Sandbox?

      Quickly mock RESTful API or SOAP web-services with simple or dynamic responses, and fault injection to simulate real application behaviour.

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      What tools integrate with Insomnia REST Client?
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        What are some alternatives to Insomnia REST Client and Sandbox?
        Postman
        It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
        RestSharp
        It is probably the most popular HTTP client library for .NET. Featuring automatic serialization and deserialization, request and response type detection, variety of authentications and other useful features
        OpenAPI
        It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
        Retrofit
        Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
        OpenAPI Specification
        It defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.
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