Hey,
I’ve been using Postman for API testing on NixOS, but it doesn’t feel great for reproducible setups across machines.
Mostly dealing with APIs that need shared environments and auth (tokens, etc.), and I’d prefer something more Linux-native or easier to manage in a declarative way.
In 2026, what are people using instead of Postman on NixOS?
CLI tools, scripts, or something else?
Would love to hear real setups
I’m currently evaluating https://hurl.dev. I’ve considered implementing something like Pester in nushell for this purpose but hurl looks good enough so far that I probably won’t have to.
Here is a past thread Alternatives to Postman that play nicely with Nix? (just for reference, I think starting a new thread after a year of inactivity is fine)
Hi,
a year after I’m still using bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ it still meets my needs. Everything is stored in plain text files.
I am using posting.
The remainder of my team seems to have switched to Bruno though (has been mentioned and linked already).
I really like how Bruno features git as a first class citizen and really have to take a deeper look, maybe I’ll find a way later to combine posting and bruno in a way that we can use same/similar repository of API queries in the team.
Posting is in nixpkgs and available for Linux and MacOS.
Nö clue about Bruno, though as it has been suggested in the thread already, I assume, it is available for Linux at least.