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Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman (github.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by dhruv3006@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Voiden is an offline-first, git-native API tool built on Markdown - and it very intentionally didn’t start as “let’s build a better Postman”.

Over time, API tooling became heavyweight: cloud dependencies for local work, forced accounts, proprietary formats, and workflows that break the moment you’re offline. Testing a localhost API shouldn’t need an internet connection.

So we asked a simple question: What if an API tool respected how developers already work?

That led to a few core ideas:

Offline-first, no accounts, no telemetry
Git as the source of truth
Specs, tests, and docs living together in Markdown

We opensourced Voiden because extensibility without openness just shifts the bottleneck.

If workflows should be transparent, the tool should be too.

Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

Download here : https://voiden.md/download

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Or, https://justuse.org/curl/

[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

https://www.neverjust.net/

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hate this elitist shit. Just for once try to work with other humans on a tech project that requires collaboration.
Postman strike a balance between technical and user friendly.
RTFM for curl for everyone is alienating for a a lot of people.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'm liking seeing both these opinions side by side. Both sound great.

Someone wants to spoon feed me curl commands, like thanks :-)

Someone wants to spoon me a UI which I can't curl, thanks eh :-)

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why use curl when you can use netcat? I love curl but curl is not postman alternative.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Why use netcat when you can just tap the bits into an ethernet cable with a bench power supply like a telegram operator?

[–] baod_rate@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or for a more purpose built wrapper (for the same use cases as postman): https://hurl.dev/

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

This looks pretty fucking amazing.