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Using Postman like a PRO with these tricks 😎

Jonathan Brizio on November 15, 2019

In these last months, I learn a lot about this great tool that allows me to speed up and optimize my workflow reducing time on repetitive tasks. ...

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Liyas Thomas • Nov 15 '19 • Edited

This is helpful 👍
We're building 100% Open sourced (6,000+ stars on GitHub), free, online alternative to Postman.
It's named Postwoman. (postwoman.io)

Launching Postwoman v1.0 👽 - free, fast & beautiful alternative to Postman 🎉

Liyas Thomas ・ Nov 5 ・ 4 min read

#githunt #showdev #javascript #productivity

Jonathan Brizio • Nov 15 '19

Hi Liyas, thanks for you words.
I will take a look, thanks for share with us.
Keep rocking!🤘

Div • Nov 15 '19

How can I create test-cases and automate it with Jenkins using Postwoman?

Paweł Kowalski • Nov 15 '19

Usually you would use test framework for that, not http client.

Liyas Thomas • Nov 15 '19 • Edited

Yeah! There's lot of amazing tools like Cypress, Jest, Ava etc.. Postwoman uses and suggests Cypress because it's community is amazing.

Liyas Thomas • Nov 15 '19

A cli is in WIP. Will rollout as soon as possible.

Div • Nov 15 '19

Okie. But I don't think it's right to say alternative to Postman. Postman is handling much more than just an API Client.

Liyas Thomas • Nov 15 '19

True. We're "building" a faster alternative then ⚡👍

Div • Nov 15 '19

That's convincing :) 👍

Yogini Bende • Nov 15 '19

One of my favorite tricks is to save the URL of API in a postman collection variable. In our current project, we use a temporary API link that changes with every deployment, so we can just copy-paste that URL into the variable and use the same for all APIs in a collection.

This is kind of similar to your first trick, but yes, that does save a lot of time and extra effort!! And thanks for these tricks. Got to learn something new!

Jonathan Brizio • Nov 15 '19

I use that at diary too.
Another trick is duplicate tabs when you need to replicate the same config for a new one.

Thanks for your words Yogini!

Jason • Jun 27 '20

Thank you for the automatically setting of the environment variable, didn't know that was a thing. I was gonna add Did you know you could put comments in your json body like so...

{
    //  Blah blah blah...
    "Property1": "value",
    "Property2": "other value"
}

but then I realized, you know, you can save those comments in the Add a description part underneath name??

oh well... :)

Eugene Karataev • Nov 15 '19

Thanks for the tip with env variables, I didn't know that 🙏
I really like postman collections. It helps to organize API requests with predefined
parameters in groups for instant access and easily share them with co-workers.

francofadini • Nov 15 '19 • Edited

Mocking is an other great feature ! I was able to mock an entire API. This allows me to develop a full app without the need of the backend at all

Jonathan Brizio • Nov 15 '19

Yeap, totally agreed with you Franco. Mocks are really useful to speed up our development.