Insomnia helps you querying your API
Insomnia is a GUI tool to help you communicating with an API. There are also other tools to do this, e.g. Postman or the command line tool cURL.
While it is quite similar to Postman, I found the UI to be less cluttered and therefore easier to use.
The usage is almost self explanatory.
You can install it via snap: sudo snap install insomnia or
via package (on Ubuntu)
Show archive.org snapshot
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