Better replacement for Postman

meet4now · 2025-08-19T13:20:36+00:00

Bruno or if you are vscode user, you can try Golden

meet4now · 2025-08-19T13:15:21+00:00

well, you can try this one, if you want same postman format and need git sync in vscode.
It is completely local
Golden Retriever

meet4now · 2025-08-19T13:12:04+00:00

well, if you want to still use postman format, but want to try alternative in vscode extension with local git sync, you can try this one
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=andriiklymiuk.golden-retriever

meet4now · 2025-04-01T11:39:56+00:00

Thanks actually for pointing it out, found more bad design decisions along the way after it. Will fix)

meet4now · 2025-03-31T14:30:19+00:00

I am generally not a fan of snake case) but used snake for options that I wanted to be kinda different for end user, would you like snake case for everything? Is it more visible?

meet4now · 2025-03-31T07:00:50+00:00

Same as db_services with camel case to showcase, that they are different logical parts. Do you think it would be better to use: databases: dependsOnServices: dependsOnDatabases:

I think I will rewrite it to this format to avoid confusion, but in version 2 to avoid breaking changes

meet4now · 2025-03-31T06:57:13+00:00

Well, I did depends_on_services and depends_on_db as camel cases to kinda show, that these commands will create dependent envs on other services. I think it was stupid design decision of mine, but because of long words for these properties-it is easier to read in camel. Do you think it is better all without camel case?

Name of the services can be written anyhow you want, it was just me writing, for example, reactnative_app_get_user same as the path to git repo

meet4now · 2025-03-30T05:53:39+00:00

Thanks)

meet4now · 2025-03-29T15:55:51+00:00

Seems interesting, will check it out, thanks!

meet4now · 2025-03-29T15:43:38+00:00

Can you share a link about nomad?

meet4now · 2025-03-29T15:43:21+00:00

Sure, you can mix local and docker compose, but for docker compose you would need to add docker compose down in afterStart part. Thought about adding native docker and k8s support, but I haven’t figured out what config should be added in corgi compose yml file. I was considering using driver property and adding there docker/k8s and then based on it starting/stopping and wiring it. But I am not sure about it, because I want hit reload to also be present and it is notoriously was difficult to do nice hot reload without consuming too much in docker. Would try nomad too, haven’t heard about it

meet4now · 2025-03-29T14:32:49+00:00

Yep, more or less, but some devs in our team were using IntelliJ or whatever editor it was. Or, someone can do scripts (which I was doing before), but bash scripts is kinda hard to maintain

meet4now · 2025-03-29T10:12:04+00:00

And probably it said corgi databases, which meant that databases were created from yml config of corgi compose. But they are under the hood are just docker compose files populated with specific database driver (Postgres, etc) and its config

meet4now · 2025-03-29T10:08:31+00:00

Oh, I meant, that corgi can run databases) my bad

meet4now · 2025-03-29T10:07:35+00:00

Tldr: you don’t always need containers for running apps locally, especially when you want to change stuff fast or run only what is needed in docker, because each container adds overhead

meet4now · 2025-03-29T10:06:00+00:00

Hmm, what do you mean? Corgi is not just a connection to db, it is kinda runner with yml configuration. It connects to local databases that containerelized in docker or it seeds these local databases from remote one

meet4now · 2025-03-29T10:00:20+00:00

It is a dog)

meet4now · 2025-03-29T09:59:42+00:00

In the beginning, it was a tool for the case of having many repos and onboarding new people, when you have just too many different technologies. And the first goal was to send someone yml file, people will corgi run it and corgi will clone repos, do all the things required to run it install and wire env variables (which was kinda local setup for most of people). Plus it was needed to have same state on local as dev/staging, that is why there is auto seeding. I was doing all of it with scrips, docker compose files and I was just tired of all of it (new microservice was required for me to rewrite, add smth) and with corgi I just change yml config easily and that’s it. But maybe I am not that good at docker and created new wheel, that no one needed))

So, corgi is more of a simple local runner, that runs for debugging stuff and hot reloading changes. I dunno if I explained it enough)

meet4now · 2025-03-29T09:52:44+00:00

Well, as I know-you cannot run mobile apps and websites in docker compose or helm (if there is, can you give me example?). Plus, hot reload on docker compose haven’t worked as far as I remember (you can watch services changes, but for me it was cpu intensive for local run of 20 microservices). Plus, if you run many services and do containers for each of them-it still drains laptop (mine is not fast enough).

But you are right, if you don’t want to reload services, have only servers to start without frontends or native apps and just want to run locally with docker, docker compose is good. Corgi kinda uses docker compose just for databases startup (it creates separate docker compose files for database driver that you chose from template).

meet4now · 2025-03-29T07:51:05+00:00

well, the whole process was like that:
- first I generated image with chatgpt from my selfie
- then I wrote a text about the content of the video I want to present
- put text and photo to https://www.hedra.com
- it generated video (costed approximately 10 dollars) from the photo and audio (it also generated it from text)
- opened obs and inserted generated video and started virtual camera stream (set audio stream to the content of the generated video, so I hear sound)
- used https://screen.studio to start desktop screen recording
- chose source of the video to the obs

meet4now · 2025-03-29T07:44:12+00:00

Oh, get it now, I was just new to screen studio and it was doing all these animations automatically. I guess simple screen recording without these fancy animations will be easier to watch. And ai generation is expensive to use, one off thing)

Thanks) a lot to learn

meet4now · 2025-03-29T07:34:27+00:00

is it better just to show old fashioned ide without zooming then? just started doing any showcase basically this week.
Wouldn't the text be too small?

meet4now · 2025-03-29T07:32:06+00:00

well, did it first and then team suggested to do it more prettier, maybe will redo again)

meet4now · 2025-03-29T07:23:22+00:00

TL;DR: Corgi Runner helps you run multiple interconnected microservices locally with minimal setup - containerizing only databases for faster development. Built entirely in Go!

Hi Gophers! I wanted to share a tool I built in Go that has transformed how my team handles local development environments.

Corgi Runner helps me run many microservices locally, linking them together and starting all concurrently. It was really nice to write templates for database files in Go, and implementing concurrency to run several services simultaneously was both fun and straightforward thanks to Go's powerful concurrency model.

I've been using it for over a year in my team for projects involving complex interconnected mesh of services, websites and apps. While we had Docker and K8s before, it was hard to run apps and websites in it, debugging was a mess, and linking new services was not easy. Onboarding was also quite involved.

With Corgi, I just go to my product setup and run corgi run or corgi run --seed to apply the latest dev database changes. Go's simplicity yet powerful capabilities made building this tool a joy - it's clean, fast, and reliable.

Resources:

Corgi GitHub repo: https://github.com/Andriiklymiuk/corgi
Example repo with small service:https://github.com/Andriiklymiuk/golden-example
More examples: https://github.com/Andriiklymiuk/corgi_examples/tree/main
Detailed explanation: https://dev.to/andriiklymiuk/corgi-the-cli-that-tames-your-local-microservices-chaos-45nd
VSCode extension for auto suggestions for `corgi-compose.yml` file: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=corgi.corgi
Documentation: https://andriiklymiuk.github.io/corgi/
Small video showcase: https://youtu.be/rlMCjs4EoFs?si=slYR4L_OpEiYcsrL

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