Software developers work a lot with REST endpoints nowadays. Sometimes we consume some endpoint exposed by some server and sometimes we create a new REST endpoint. In both cases you need to send a request to the endpoint and see what it returns.

I have been using different HTTP clients like Postman or Insomnia and they were OK. But when it comes to calling an endpoint from a terminal there was only one option: a curl command. Unfortunately it has not intuitive and verbose command line arguments so I am not a fan of it.

There I a very cool alternative and it is called httpie (httpie.io/cli). It comes with a handy http command and it is really easy to use.

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