Commandcar
Dev tools
api client
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interactive approach is a nice differentiator from Newman
From 1 comment
There's also Newman: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman It can take collections from Postman and run them. Commandcar seems to be more driven towards interactivity though,…
czardoz on HN
Objections
Runs with sudo by default in README, installs into system directories
From 1 comment
Why the example in README uses sudo by default? It seems more suitable to install APIs into local user directory by default and don't force the users to run your command as root.
inlineint on HN
Title is vague; 'any API' seems to mean web service APIs
From 1 comment
“Any API” seems to mean “any web service API” or something like that.
kps on HN
No tests
From 1 comment
No tests?
ghubbard on HN
Requests
Support Swagger or RAML API specs
From 1 comment
Did you create another API doc design? Are there plans to support the other specs like Swagger or RAML?
anonfunction on HN
Integrate with framework routing definitions such as Rails routes
From 1 comment
Good idea. It would be useful to integrate it with the routing definitions of popular frameworks. Example: generate the definition file from Rails' routes.rb
pmontra on HN
Add Salesforce support
From 1 comment
Adding Salesforce probably could be beneficial
dzhiurgis on HN
Questions
Why does it need to copy files into /usr
From 1 comment
>copy files into /usr Why that?
fit2rule on HN
Alternatives named
Newman (runs Postman collections)
From 1 comment
There's also Newman: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman It can take collections from Postman and run them. Commandcar seems to be more driven towards interactivity though,…
czardoz on HN