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Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
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Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#112What impress me is that far they can go as a chrome app, chrome is turning into a platform like adobe air now. It's amazing.
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#113Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#114We've been using Postman for a while now, it's invaluable for testing/validating APIs across our environments. One feature we've been waiting a long time for however is live collection sharing; to have a centralized set of endpoints/etc that's kept updated and synchronized (without needing everyone to export and import JSON files). There's a feature request on GitHub but it's been in stasis for a long time now.
Will have something which will solve this and much more very soon. I tried different alternatives (Drive/Dropbox) but none of them fit the amount of flexibility I wanted to have with collections.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#115Postman is a great tool, i cant imagine developing applications nowadays without it.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt that completely, citation needed.
I find your response to be really arrogant. Postman is an easily installed Chrome extension that can be supplied to everyone on your team, regardless of skill level. Requiring a cli isn't as easy as a one click install - there's dependencies (Python etc.) that are required which, while easy for many, aren't as simple for a lot of web developers - especially those who focus on front end development and may just need a…
I know that there is nothing that an add-in can do that a scripting environment can't and it is not a that difficult, which is the assertion I am responding to. Sooner or later the dialog box driven tool will prevent you from doing what you want.
I would still like an example of a series of Http:// requests that is "difficult" to do with just curl, wget and a bit of shell script.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt that completely, citation needed.
I agree that CLI are awesome and you can do way more using it that with any other UI (specially a web one), but taking HTTP API testing as an example, postman lets you do a bunch of stuff that are so simple with one click that I can see some people not wanting to dive in the CLI world, write a bunch of stuff and also having to store environment data for requests with extra files (I think thats where the 'difficult' f…
None of those things are intractable, I have had scripts handle them all.
On top of that, writing scripts educates you on how such systems work. It really isn't challenging.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#118I know i am missing something here....but how on earth do you launch this?
Chrome's official 'App Launcher' is your friend https://chrome.google.com/webstore/launcher :-)
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#119I use Rested, it's a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/ EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that CLI are awesome and you can do way more using it that with any other UI (specially a web one), but taking HTTP API testing as an example, postman lets you do a bunch of stuff that are so simple with one click that I can see some people not wanting to dive in the CLI world, write a bunch of stuff and also having to store environment data for requests with extra files (I think thats where the 'difficult' f…
None of those things are intractable, I have had scripts handle them all. On top of that, writing scripts educates you on how such systems work. It really isn't challenging.
Sure. I can script a lot of things and have learned a ton by doing that. But when I'm focused on making an API or debugging one, I don't want to spend the time writing a script if there is a readily available tool that does what I need. I can better spend the time improving the app.