usebruno/bruno

Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

Developer toolsJavaScript#api-client#git#graphql-client#opensource#automation

2.3 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 23, 2026, 12:53 UTC.

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About the project

Open-source API client IDE for exploring and testing HTTP requests. Collections are stored as plain-text files on disk, so they can be versioned with Git; it works offline only.

Useful for

Run an API collection from the command line via Bruno CLI in CI/CD
Store request collections in Git and review changes alongside code
Execute requests in a Docker container without installing Node.js on the host

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

13 stars so far today, about 25 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #14, +28 stars.
About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 47,133
Today: 13 · ≈ 26 by evening
Forks: 2,911
Issues and pull requests: 8,776
Watchers: 115
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v4.1.0 · August 20, 2026
Created: September 27, 2022
Last push: September 23, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 23, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #14, +28 stars

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