Postman Application

Using browser to send HTTP request (and receive the response) is cumbersome, especially during development. We'll be using a tool called Postman to make requests to our development server.

Tip

Download and install Postman.

Postman can create GET, PUT, POST, etc. requests complete with bodies. It can also be used to test endpoints automatically.

Note

Postman is an API Development Environment (ADE). Although it was first design to facilitate performing HTTP requests, it has matured into an industry standard for designing, documenting, testing, and interacting with APIs.

We will demo the use of Postman in class but we cannot cover much due to our limited time. Please visit the Postman Learning Center, in particular, the section about sending API requests, for more information and guidelines.

Here is a screenshot of a HTTP Get request we made in class:

Tip

A very good tutorial to get you up and running with Postman is guru99's postman-tutorial.