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Insomnia REST Client vs ReadMe Build: What are the differences?
Insomnia REST Client: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴. Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux; ReadMe Build: Build, deploy and share APIs & microservices easily. Build allows you to really easily move from code to deployed services without ever having to worry about provisioning, setting up and managing servers. You focus on code, we handle the rest - simple.
Insomnia REST Client and ReadMe Build belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Insomnia REST Client is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Insomnia REST Client's open source repository on GitHub.
Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux4
- Opensource3
- Vim and Emacs key map2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
Pros of ReadMe Build
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Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
