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This is such a weird article. Electron is not for making http requests, it’s for rendering web pages. Nothing within curl can render web pages. I’m not saying you should be using electron necessarily, but this is just so obviously wrong, what is the author thinking?
And (almost) any programming language has a built-in primitive for making http requests (possibly even using libcurl internally), why would I switch to a command line call if I can just do the http call directly with that primitive?
It’s been awhile since I had to deal with web requests. Back then I used Postman (back when I still used Windows). Now I try to always get by using the simplest open source tools for the job so thanks for sharing, will try it out.
I knew of curl but always thought of it as a tool to play around when doing simple requests, never knew people go so far with it.
Command line escaping is an annoying son of a bitch and different rules apply depending if you’re using bash, cmd, powershell.
That’s why you shouldn’t use cmd or powershell. That and the fact that you’d have to install W*nd*ws in order to use them.
Generally not a big fan of this type of writing especially when it’s so wrong.
I’m an old software dev who grew up with curl but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone new. It’s extremely dated UX that takes a long time to figure all of the quirks out. You will fail thousand times over and is a http client CLI really worth days of your time learning?
Libcurl itself is brilliant but there are much better front ends for it like hurl or alternatives like httpie - use those instead.
Wow the httpie site is terrible
Hahahahaha you’re not wrong
Same here, though last time I used a nice frontend was in 2010s, it stopped being developed like all these smaller projects finally end up, and I’m back to using curl. Perhaps it’s time to try again, httpie has been around for a while so maybe it’s here to stay
As a daily curl user, this made me interested in trying out postman.
There are less bloated alternatives I prefer. Like Bruno, which is easy/easier to version control.
I just downloaded it, there’s even an appimage 😍
I’m very early stages on making my own TUI for http requests that’s shortcut based. Idea is to use Jetbrains format http files. Folders for projects, sidebar for requests etc.
Supports environments and I’m hoping I can set up the main screen to use Vim.
It’s born out of postman hate mostly. It’s just so bloated
More coming soon. Or not. I don’t owe you shit.
That was a fun read! I don’t even know what Postman is but I do like curl :P
Be glad you don’t know what Postman is.
The only reason I bother is because some PMs want to use it.
Look at Bruno. Its open source, though I did get pay walled the other day and it pissed me off.
I thought this article was complaining about something that no-one used, but here you are recommending alternatives… alternatives that are not curl
Still has an open source version tho: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing
Check out yaak, also open source no paywall. Built on Tauri so not a dumb electron app
Yaak has a commercial paywall if you use the pre-built binaries. You can easily build it yourself without licensing tho
You can pry
wgetfrom my cold, dead hands.they are different things, wget and curl do not have many overlapping use cases other than downloading stuff over http
That’s great. I like a GUI. I also do not like whatever postman is. So I have to suffer until I find something that works for me
Httpie desktop? Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/?
Bruno Looks interesting. I think the last time I read about it it was very new, I might need to give it another try. I hope it will not end up like postman or insomnia.
The first thing I see when opening the httpie app website is a “we now have ai” pop-up. So probably not that one.
Ah has ai made it to httpie now too? Shame.
This is beautiful. I’ma send this to my coworkers.
With none other than…
Somewhere in between is https://hurl.dev/index.html
Is there one of these for shell scripts over CI/CD frameworks?
Bighead is not to be fucked with.
curl is obviously fantastic but for more complex ad-hoc requests I usually prefer httpie.
