Today I want to tell you about a new http client that I recently discovered, but that impressed me very much, to use as an alternative to the very popular Postman.

I report directly from their site some information

Bruno is a Fast and Git-Friendly Opensource API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman, Insomnia and similar tools out there.

Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. They use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests.

This allows you to be able to share bruno collections with the rest of the team very easily using any version control of your choice, such as git.

As we can see, it is open source software, and this allows us to have control over how our data is handled or otherwise know how the software works.

Speaking of data, since the software saves all data in a local folder on one's pc, one can well understand how the developers care about privacy. In this way we are masters of our data and not only that, it saves us money in subscriptions to work in teams.

To help us migrate from other similar services, it gives us the ability to import our collections from Postam, Insomnia and OpenAPI V3 Spec.

Of course a also a downside, but one that does not touch most of you readers, which is that it is not yet possible to make calls in GRPC, a protocol that I have recently started using within some microservices.

Honestly, I've now definitely switched to using Bruno to test my bees, and I'm not hanging on at all.