The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
8 hours ago
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- The article criticizes the shift of API tools like Postman from developer-friendly to corporate-driven products, focusing on enshittification and performance issues.
- Key grievances include Postman's removal of offline mode, forced cloud synchronization, and bloated performance, alongside similar patterns in Insomnia and Thunder Client.
- Developers are turning to alternatives like Bruno for local-first, Git-integrated workflows, though these tools lack polish and some enterprise features.
- An ideal API tool is described as local-first, Git-native, high-performance, extensible, and free from mandatory logins or cloud locks.
- An update mentions Postman's introduction of Native Git features, but criticizes it as a surface-level change that still ties collaboration to a paid cloud model.