Design, Debug, Test and Mock APIs with Kong Insomnia
summary
Kong Insomnia shows concrete capabilities: an editor with Spectral linting and live spec rendering, import of OpenAPI/Postman with automatic conversion of pre/post scripts to JavaScript, and protocol support for REST SOAP GraphQL and gRPC. Test flow uses a drag‑and‑drop collection Runner with JavaScript pre/post scripts, environment scoping and private vars, plus Faker with hundreds of random generators. Mocking runs as a SaaS URL, local Docker server or Gateway plugin. Admins get local or secure cloud storage and optional Git sync and CLI for CI.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome and API lifecycle
- 1:08API design with Insomnia
- 3:13Debugging and testing APIs
- 5:20Collection Runner for testing
- 6:27Environment variables and security
- 9:23Mocking APIs
- 11:07Storage and collaboration
- 14:21Importing collections
- 15:47Authentication and setup
- 16:31Key takeaways
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