Light weight alternative to Postman — VS code extension
In earlier days I was learning backend and after that I was working with APIs so I used Postman. Then I had faced an issue that is postman suddenly not worked in my MacBook so I switched to Insomnia and used it to Check API req and res.
After all I faced another issue in project preparation time that is my group members worked with Postman I am the only person who worked with Insomnia so I couldn’t import requests and env data. So I decided to back to Postman but it didn’t work. Then I tried with some other older versions it supported.
These days in my MacBook multiple apps running coz of Full Stack Development Postman also. Finally I heard about Thunder Client Extension so I installed it on Visual Studio Code and it’s working smoothly.
It was created by Mr.Ranga Vadhineni. coz of slow to load,Not light weight and confusing UI of Postman. In this extension we can import collections and environmental variables from Postman.
Features
- Lightweight API Client
- Simple, Clean & Easy to use UI
- One click access to most functionality
- Handle Large Responses & View Response in Full Screen
- Collections & Environment Variables Support
- Scriptless Testing
Technologies used
The tech used is to develop the VS Code extension are Javascript, Flexbox, Typescript, Ace Editor, Got, Nedb. No javascript or bootstrap frameworks used.
In Postman we use like localhost:5000 in this extension we should add protocol http://localhost:5000. Cool creation and hope to do more works using Thunder Client.
Thank You.
Reference: https://rangav.medium.com/thunder-client-alternative-to-postman-68ee0c9486d6
