In October, we announced that we welcomed Insomnia to the team at Kong as the next step in our journey to build the service control platform for the future. Send a tokenAuth mutation to obtain the token. Insomnia is an open source GraphQL and REST client aimed at making testing and debugging APIs easier. In other words, an access token of some sort would be required in the request header of the createArticle mutation. Imagine if we want to run the createArticle mutation to create a new article, the server would require us to be authorized first. Insomnia provides the ability to extract values from the responses from other requests ( source). If the hotkey Control + Space doesn’t work, use instead. To reference any environment variable, simply press Control/Cmd + Space on your keyboard. Hotkey: Cmd/Ctrl + Eĭo note that the environment is to be filled in JSON format. Like Postman, we could easily set environment variables in Insomnia and use them later on when making our requests.įor instance, we can configure our API’s BASE_URL according to our environment such as Local, Staging or Production and switch to a different environment with ease. Here are some useful tips when using Insomnia. As a result, to use autocomplete on Postman, one would need to import your schema file manually to Postman every time there are new changes made to your schema which can be very cumbersome.

Postman as of the date of writing this article does not directly support importing GraphQL schemas via URL directly ( issue). With the introspection system, GraphQL can provide a way for clients to discover the resources that are available in a GraphQL schema which then allows features like self-documentation and autocompletion to be used by the users. Insomnia is a great new graphical tool for testing and building REST APIs with an easy to use and slick interface. Why not Postman? Lack of support for schema import via URL and autocomplete

The goal of this article is to share with you some of the handy tips and tricks that you can use with Insomnia, especially while developing GraphQL APIs, though it works great with REST too. Insomnia is an open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. While Postman is the de facto standard for API testing and development, I would like to draw your attention to a fast and easy-to-use alternative to Postman - Insomnia REST Client. Generally, one would use an API client to test APIs in terms of functionality, performance, security, reliability, and the correctness of the responses. If you are developing a set of APIs, chances are you already know Postman - an API Client for API development.

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