Postman - API development tool

1. Postman
API development tool

2. Postman - API development tool
• Design
• Manage
• Run
• Test
• Documentation
• Share

3. –Undisclosed team mate
“But it is just GUI for cURL.”

4. Why?

5. Complex systems

6. Team collaboration

7. Web and mobile development

8. Light theme

9. Request

10. Request

11. Request headers

12. Request forms

13. Response

14. Response

15. Collections and folders

16. Collections and folders

17. Environments

18. Environment variables

19. Environment variables
• URLs
• API keys
• Auth tokens
• etc.

20. Code generation

21. Tests

22. Tests

23. Test results

24. Test results

25. Tests
• Sandbox
• Supported packages
• LoDash
• cheerio (simple jQuery)
• CryptoJS
• SugarJS
• tv4 JSON schema validator

26. Newman
• Command-line runner
• Open-source
• NPM package

27. Newman

28. Documentation (Markdown)

29. Share
• Import/Export
• Sync with cloud
• Life hack: use single account :)
• Teams - $5/user per month

30. Alternatives

31. Paw
• $50
• MacOS only
• Beautiful and sleek
• Teams - $10 / user monthly

32. Insomnia
• Free
• All platforms (Electron)
• Cleaner UI than Postman
• Less features :(
• Teams - $5 / user monthly

33. Command line tools
• curl
• wget
• HTTPie
• resty

34. Services
• Apigee
• Apiary
• Restlet Studio

35. Swagger / Open API
• API description format
• Many tools
• Editor
• Code generator

36. Conclusions
• Use any tool
• Share your API
• Especially in the team
• Especially for complex project

37. Igor Shubovych
@igor_shubovych
github.com/igorshubovych