I have been searching for a Postman alterniative since this announcement and after trying half a dozen different apps for over a year, I discovered httpYac and fell in love. My original goal was to find a platform to which we could migrate our Postman collections, but after working with httpYac for a couple of weeks, I want to rewrite everything because httpYac is so much simpler and more capable. It is file based, so integration with Git is simple. I can run collections. I can execute individual tests. It has a GUI (via a VSCode extension) and a CLI. It ties environments to projects (I longed for it). I can execute pre- and post-request script. I can write code in JavaScript. I can have chained requests. I can set up test dependencies, so if test X requires test A, running test X will invoke test A. I can set up conditional logic to skip tests based on dynamic criteria. I can use project-based code snippets to standardize test code and help new developers. It has various options for protecting secrets and supports most authorization schemes (Basic, Bearer, OAuth 2.0, etc) and authorization is automated. I do not need to use cloud. I thought that our Postman use case was complicated, but everything I needed I can do using httpYac. And even more. And it is simpler. So, many thanks to the Postman team for building a great product which we loved and then changing the licensing terms and crippling it to give us an insentive to find an even better product. Btw, did I mention that httpYac is free?
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Wanted to subscribe today because i am excited about the collection runner, then found out this limitation, and now i will immediately try other tools and leave this tool. Postman team, what were you thinking when you came up with this? It runs locally and not even in your cloud?
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