Introducing Postman
Postman is a tool that lets us develop and test our APIs faster. This tool provides a GUI that makes it easy to tweak our APIs faster, which decreases the development time of our APIs. We can also maintain a history by creating a collection of all the APIs that we have developed.
There are different alternatives for Postman as well, such as Runscope and Paw. We will be using Postman for this book.
Installing Postman
There are different ways to use Postman:
- We can get the Chrome extension as follows: If you visit https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop?hl=en, we will see the following:
Click on the Add to Chrome button and the extension will be installed.
- We can download the right desktop application for our operating system via https://www.getpostman.com/.
We have used the desktop application for this book.
Testing APIs with Postman
First, let's have a quick recap of what we have done so far. In the app that we are building, the app...
