8 alternatives to bruno
usebruno/bruno — Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia) (47,801 stars, MIT, ui, integration, dev-tools).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,714 licence-cleared components from usebruno/bruno itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | hoppscotch/hoppscotch | 7.4 | MIT | 80,673 |
| 2 | testing-library/react-testing-library | 8.7 | MIT | 19,675 |
| 3 | puppeteer/puppeteer | 7.7 | Apache-2.0 | 95,728 |
| 4 | microsoft/playwright | 7.2 | Apache-2.0 | 98,221 |
| 5 | vitest-dev/vitest | 7.9 | MIT | 17,284 |
| 6 | swagger-api/swagger-ui | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 29,045 |
| 7 | darrenburns/posting | 5.5 | Apache-2.0 | 12,539 |
| 8 | htest-dev/htest | 4.7 | MIT | 23 |
The alternatives in detail
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Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia
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🐐 Simple and complete React DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.score 8.7/10 · MIT permissive · 19,675 stars · 5 components · search them
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JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox
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Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
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Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.score 7.9/10 · MIT permissive · 17,284 stars · 491 components · search them
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Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
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The modern API client that lives in your terminal.score 5.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 12,539 stars · 180 components · search them
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Declarative, boilerplate-free unit testingscore 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 23 stars · 20 components · search them
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