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Alamofire vs Postman: What are the differences?

Developers describe Alamofire as "HTTP networking library for iOS and macOS". It is a Swift-based HTTP networking library for iOS and macOS. It provides an elegant interface on top of Apple's Foundation networking stack that simplifies a number of common networking tasks. On the other hand, Postman is detailed as "Only complete API development environment". Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Alamofire and Postman can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

Alamofire is an open source tool with 31.3K GitHub stars and 5.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Alamofire's open source repository on GitHub.

Advice on Alamofire and Postman
StackShare Editors
| 5 upvotes · 106.8K views
Needs advice
on
Postman
Apiary
and
Swagger UI

From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 134.6K views
Recommends
Postman
at

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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Jadenko
| 2 upvotes · 123.1K views
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Swagger UI
at

I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

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Sadik Ay
Backend Engineer · | 2 upvotes · 106.3K views
Recommends
Postman

I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

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Decisions about Alamofire and Postman
Stephen Fox
Artificial Intelligence Fellow · | 1 upvote · 120.6K views
Chose
Postman
over
Insomnia REST Client

Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.

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Pros of Alamofire
Pros of Postman
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    • 481
      Easy to use
    • 366
      Great tool
    • 274
      Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
    • 154
      Easy setup, looks good
    • 142
      The best api workflow out there
    • 53
      History feature
    • 53
      It's the best
    • 43
      Adds real value to my workflow
    • 41
      Great interface that magically predicts your needs
    • 34
      The best in class app
    • 10
      Can save and share script
    • 9
      Fully featured without looking cluttered
    • 7
      Collections
    • 6
      Global/Environment Variables
    • 6
      Shareable Collections
    • 6
      Dead simple and useful. Excellent
    • 6
      Dark theme easy on the eyes
    • 6
      Option to run scrips
    • 5
      Awesome customer support
    • 5
      Great integration with newman
    • 4
      The test script is useful
    • 3
      This has simplified my testing significantly
    • 3
      Easy as pie
    • 3
      Simple
    • 3
      Documentation
    • 3
      Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
    • 3
      Saves responses
    • 2
      API-network
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      Mocking API calls with predefined response
    • 2
      I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
    • 1
      Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
    • 1
      Postman Runner CI Integration
    • 1
      Now supports GraphQL
    • 1
      Continuous integration using newman
    • 1
      Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
    • 1
      Graph
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    Cons of Alamofire
    Cons of Postman
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      • 8
        Stores credentials in HTTP
      • 7
        Poor GraphQL support
      • 6
        Bloated features and UI
      • 5
        Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
      • 2
        Expensive
      • 1
        Can't prompt for per-request variables

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      What is Alamofire?

      It is a Swift-based HTTP networking library for iOS and macOS. It provides an elegant interface on top of Apple's Foundation networking stack that simplifies a number of common networking tasks.

      What is Postman?

      It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

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        Retrofit
        Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
        Firebase
        Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
        Amazon API Gateway
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