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Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

#21
I've been using Postman for a couple of year now if I recall correctly. It's an absolute timesaver for me when developing and using an API.

Paw looks really good. I'll definitely give that a try, especially if the team sharing features are good.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main thing for me was that it's a proper native app. It works really well, takes advantage of the native OS APIs and is a better product because of it.

Which to me in this case just means "I can only run this on my work Macbook, and not on my personal Linux or Windows machines, or on a Chromebook."

That is a major advantage of postman, but the reality for me is that I use an API client like this when I'm building and API. I'm on my mac and Paw is the best, most productive option.

I've been giving feedback to the postman team and hope to see it continue to improve. The electron desktop app was a big step forward, but there is still lots of room to improve.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

#28
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For those who want something that works really well, with a very nice UI and is free, I would highly recommend Insomnia for Google Chrome (it functions as a standalone app outside of Chrome). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/insomnia-rest-clie...

Didn't know about this. Thanks!

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

#29

Bought Paw on the Mac App Store a while back. I wonder if this update will come to me as well, or that I need to repurchase. For now I can't find Paw 3 there at all; perhaps they stopped using the MAS?

Sketch (https://www.sketchapp.com/) stopped using MAS in the past year too. Not the best trend for Apple.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

#30

I've been using Postman for a couple of year now if I recall correctly. It's an absolute timesaver for me when developing and using an API. Paw looks really good. I'll definitely give that a try, especially if the team sharing features are good.

I've used Postman on and off but I just find the UI more burdensome than it's worth and use one of the more simple rest clients and curl for when I'm really trying to string together some complicated requests.

Paw looks gorgeous and very nicely featured. Let's see how it works on Monday against the Niantic APIs :)

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