Show HN: Restfox – A web based HTTP client inspired by Insomnia and Postman

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4 years ago

Hey HN, I built this because I wanted a portable version of Insomnia I could access anywhere I am, without installing anything. The application is a PWA, so it will not load resources again after the first load, unless there's an update. It uses IndexedDB and loads quite fast even with a lot of nested requests and folders.

Import from Postman and Insomnia is available making it easy to import your pre-existing request collections.

Only limitation is that it only supports CORS enabled endpoints for now. I plan to add cors proxy support later on. There is of course the electron build (https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/releases/tag/v0.0.1), which can be used to bypass cors but that kinda defeats the portability of the app but it is an option.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

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