But then how did Postman became so popular - we can’t deny it became the default.

subscription based right?

But whyyyy?

But how do you collaborate?

so proton is now a movement.

Just in case you wanna try it out : https://voiden.md/

We have a very different approach to API tooling.

Awesome - would love some feedback !

Just fyi - voiden too is not us based.

Happy to help out - Check out our docs too - https://docs.voiden.md/docs/getting-started-section/intro.

They never learn.

:)

Interesting point. Are you thinking about this from the parser/tooling side, or from the person writing and reviewing the file?

We intentionally started from Markdown because we wanted .void files to stay standards-compliant and not reinvent a new document format. Markdown already gives us a familiar, portable way to write docs, notes, examples, and explanations around the request.

Frontmatter handles the document-level metadata, Markdown stays the human-readable documentation layer, and the structured Voiden blocks handle the executable API parts.

We could put everything into one YAML object, but then the file becomes more like a config file than a Markdown document. The tradeoff we’re making is: keep the file readable in GitHub, PRs, and plain text editors while it still gives Voiden enough structure to execute requests reliably.

That’s a great observation !

It right now helps in opening a specified file or directory in Voiden, see the version, etc.

You can check out more in the docs here : https://docs.voiden.md/docs/developer-tools/voiden-cli

No it does have a CLI too and we are planning for a CLI runner very very soon !

I am making a GitHub repository https://github.com/dp1620/awesome-markdown-devtools for markdown tools - I will include revealjs.com along with sli.dev

my goodness - I saw this pretty pretty long back.

Thanks - do give us a feedback :)

imo Swagger is good for looking at the API. For local and odd setups for example If you need shell scripts swagger becomes pretty rigid.

You can join our discord to meet people who are using it : https://discord.com/invite/XSYCf7JF4F