Hoppscotch Community Edition

Hoppscotch Community Edition is an open-source API development ecosystem for sending, testing, and organizing requests across common API styles and real-time protocols. It provides a fast, lightweight web UI and supports local/offline workflows as well as optional sync and team collaboration features.

Key Features

• API client for REST/HTTP with headers, params, body types, auth, and response inspection
• GraphQL client with schema fetching and documentation support
• Real-time protocol tools: WebSocket, Server-Sent Events (SSE), MQTT, and Socket.IO
• Collections and folders for organizing requests, plus import/export and shareable request links
• Environments and variables, with pre-request scripts and post-request tests
• PWA support with offline capability and low resource usage
• Theming, keyboard shortcuts, and bulk edit for request data

Use Cases

• Developing and debugging APIs during backend and frontend development
• Testing real-time connections (WebSocket/SSE/MQTT/Socket.IO) during integration work
• Maintaining reusable request collections and environment variables for teams or projects

Limitations and Considerations

• Some advanced enterprise capabilities (such as certain SSO features) may be edition-dependent.

Hoppscotch Community Edition is a strong alternative to tools like Postman or Insomnia for developers who want a fast, modern interface and broad protocol support. It is well-suited for both quick ad-hoc requests and structured, repeatable API testing workflows.