Bruno: The Git-native API client

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Comment by s4rcode 1 day ago

a con is that you need to reimport file upon git switch

Comment by karpovv-boris 1 day ago

Don’t all these API testing clients (also Postman) store requests in a bunch of JSON files, which makes them all git native?

Just questioning Bruno tag line but hey atleast no AI in it.

Comment by cors-fls 1 day ago

JSON is text but not all text files are equal for git versioning. A lot of tools like Postman save(d) their data in a big JSON file, often minimified, making it absolutely impossible to natively use git diffing and merging. Which makes collaboration impossible. Collaboration is then sold as an add-on, and for Postman only through Cloud sync.

Postman added a new file format this year. It now does what Bruno was doing since the beginning : one file per request for easy diffing and merging.

Bruno definitely had an edge. And it lost it because LLMs left no choice to Postman but to adopt something similar.