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Discussion on: No Need Postman, Your VSCode is Enough for Testing Your API 😎⚑

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Adam Parkin

Thunder Client does look cool, but just an FYI: it is not open source (which is of course also true of Postman). This matters around API testing tools as if (for example) you're hitting API endpoints which require auth, then any credentials you supply will go through that tool, so you have to trust that the authors/maintainers of that tool don't do anything questionable with those credentials. If the source is open, then you have the ability to examine the code to help alleviate this concern.

A similar extension is REST Client: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items... which is open source (github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient).

Note that I'm not saying that Thunder Client is bad, or that REST Client is better, just that for my use cases REST Client is more aligned with my values (I personally don't use VS Code extensions unless they are open source), so sharing for others who would like similar options.