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What is Insomnia, as a developer tool?

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  1. What is Insomnia, as a developer tool?
  2. What does a "pre-request script" allow you to do in Insomnia (or similar API clients)?
  3. What is a benefit of Insomnia supporting plugins/extensions for extending its functionality?
  4. What is the purpose of response history/timeline features in Insomnia, showing past requests and their responses?
  5. Why might a developer prefer using a dedicated API client like Insomnia over testing an API purely via `curl` commands in a terminal?
  6. Why might comparing responses across different environments (e.g. checking that a "Staging" response matches the expected shape of the "Production" response for the same request) be a valuable practice enabled by Insomnia's environment-switching feature?
  7. What is the purpose of Insomnia's built-in support for various authentication types (Bearer Token, Basic Auth, OAuth 2.0, etc.) on a request?
  8. What does Insomnia's GraphQL support provide beyond what a plain REST request could?
  9. What is the purpose of a "test" (or assertion) feature in an API client like Insomnia, run after a response is received?
  10. What is a "Collection" (or "Workspace") in Insomnia used for?
  11. What is the purpose of Insomnia's "Design" mode (working with OpenAPI/Swagger specification files) alongside its request-testing capabilities?
  12. What is the purpose of Insomnia's support for gRPC requests, alongside REST and GraphQL?
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