I’ve recently started a new front end project. It’s been years since I have done any sort of front end work, so besides getting into the more recent frameworks, I’ve been exploring IDEs. I had used VS Code for a long time, but since I have all products package for Jetbrains, I thought I would give WebStorm a try. Overall I’m very happy. It uses the same format as all other Jetbrains products, so opening it is as familiar as GoLand, PyCharm, or Rider.

Synopsis Content I’ve been using Bruno for about six months now, and I’m really enjoying it. I wanted to write a few examples of why its better than Postman (or others). I love the assertion mechanism. Assertions allow you to check basic properties of responses, such as status code, number of elements in the body, etc. Its much more convenient and approachable than a full javascript test. It has a massive amount of validators as well, making it very robust.