Ezy
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api client
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Execution: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful gRPC client with better UX and features than alternatives.
From 2 comments
When we were working on adding gRPC support to Step CI, I needed a client that I could use to test my mock APIs manually BloomRPC looked ugly and outdated, Kreya would crash on…
ushakov on HNgRPC has been a pain (customization of the generated clients, automation testing, even usual testing). I haven't heard of Ezy (used BloomRPC, insomnia, and another client, all of…
arein3 on HN
Supports mTLS and TLS settings.
From 1 comment
Glad to see that this supports mTLS. Will have a look at this tool. Does the TLS/mTLS settings allow you to override the host name of the server, so that I can connect to…
codetrotter on HN
Objections
Rough around the edges: environments and metadata are not shared between requests.
From 1 comment
Looks promising. I have to say this is still really rough, though. Some feedback after 5 minutes of testing: * It doesn't remember your "environment". So if I call endpoint A and…
atombender on HN
Laggy editors when many tabs are open.
From 2 comments
Looks promising. I have to say this is still really rough, though. Some feedback after 5 minutes of testing: * It doesn't remember your "environment". So if I call endpoint A and…
atombender on HN> you selected the file and then just delete it before clicking create :) No, I had a proto file which imported another proto file, which could not be found, because I had not…
atombender on HN
No support for include directories or streams in the comparison with Paw.
From 1 comment
Interesting tool, never seen this before! Tested it with common gRPC cases. Just some things why it's not good for gRPC: ``` 1. It doesn't support streams. 2. It doesn't support…
notmedia on HN
Requests
Show decoded responses as Protobuf rather than JSON.
From 1 comment
Looks promising. I have to say this is still really rough, though. Some feedback after 5 minutes of testing: * It doesn't remember your "environment". So if I call endpoint A and…
atombender on HN
Auto-mocking and autocompletion for request payloads.
From 1 comment
Hi! Thank you for testing! > It doesn't remember your "environment". So if I call endpoint A and then click on endpoint B to try that, it forgets which environment is being…
notmedia on HN
Return request and response headers in the output.
From 2 comments
Looks promising. I have to say this is still really rough, though. Some feedback after 5 minutes of testing: * It doesn't remember your "environment". So if I call endpoint A and…
atombender on HN>Can you describe what information you want to see? Everything there could be (of course maybe in a separate expander). I needed the request/response headers, but maybe somebody…
arein3 on HN
Automated test runs without a GUI for CI.
From 1 comment
gRPC has been a pain (customization of the generated clients, automation testing, even usual testing). I haven't heard of Ezy (used BloomRPC, insomnia, and another client, all of…
arein3 on HN
Questions
Can TLS settings override the server host name?
From 1 comment
Glad to see that this supports mTLS. Will have a look at this tool. Does the TLS/mTLS settings allow you to override the host name of the server, so that I can connect to…
codetrotter on HN
Can proto files be imported to define endpoints automatically?
From 1 comment
Glad to see that this supports mTLS. Will have a look at this tool. Does the TLS/mTLS settings allow you to override the host name of the server, so that I can connect to…
codetrotter on HN
Alternatives named
Paw
From 1 comment
Pretty happy with Paw (https://paw.cloud, macOs) also supports gRPC
wdb on HN
Insomnia
From 1 comment
BloomRPC
From 1 comment
When we were working on adding gRPC support to Step CI, I needed a client that I could use to test my mock APIs manually BloomRPC looked ugly and outdated, Kreya would crash on…
ushakov on HN
Hoppscotch
From 1 comment
You may try https://hoppscotch.io/
bob2047 on HN
Restfox
From 1 comment
You can try https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox. It's a web based HTTP client based on Postman and Insomnia. Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer for it.
kermire on HN