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dhruv3006@lemmy.worldOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Postman Defined the Last Era of API Tools. Not the Next One.
1·3 days agoJust in case you wanna try it out : https://voiden.md/
We have a very different approach to API tooling.
dhruv3006@lemmy.worldOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Built an API dev tool and got 11k+ installs already, this is what happened since we open sourced.
4·21 days agoInteresting 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.
dhruv3006@lemmy.worldOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Built an API dev tool and got 11k+ installs already, this is what happened since we open sourced.
2·21 days agoThat’s a great observation !
dhruv3006@lemmy.worldOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Built an API dev tool and got 11k+ installs already, this is what happened since we open sourced.
3·21 days agoIt 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
dhruv3006@lemmy.worldOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Built an API dev tool and got 11k+ installs already, this is what happened since we open sourced.
4·21 days agoNo it does have a CLI too and we are planning for a CLI runner very very soon !
dhruv3006@lemmy.worldOPto
Programming@programming.dev•Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman
0·2 months agoWelcome to join us here : https://discord.com/invite/XSYCf7JF4F




But how do you collaborate?