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Apigility

Stacks37

Followers100

+ 1

Votes2

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Stacks62.4K

Followers50.5K

+ 1

Votes1.8K

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Apigility vs Postman: What are the differences?

Apigility: The world's easiest way to create high-quality APIs. An API-based architecture is essential to agile delivery of mobile applications. Apigility provides JSON representations that can be parsed and used in any mobile framework; write for the web or native applications simultaneously!; Postman: 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.

Apigility and Postman belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Apigility are:

RESTful or RPC services
JSON (specifically, HAL)
Problem Details for HTTP APIs

On the other hand, Postman provides the following key features:

Compact layout
HTTP requests with file upload support
Formatted API responses for JSON and XML

Apigility is an open source tool with 477 GitHub stars and 144 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apigility's open source repository on GitHub.

Advice on Apigility and Postman

StackShare Editors

May 1, 2019 | 5 upvotes · 134.2K views

Needs advice

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 · May 6, 2019 | 8 upvotes · 162K views

Recommends

Postman

Founder and Lightning

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).

Sadik Ay

Backend Engineer · Aug 31, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 133.7K 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.

Jadenko

May 3, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 150.4K views

Recommends

Swagger UI

European Commission

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.

Decisions about Apigility and Postman

Stephen Fox

Artificial Intelligence Fellow · Feb 4, 2020 | 1 upvote · 145.1K 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 Apigility

Pros of Postman

1
Follows Standards, Easy to Use, Design Patterns Used
1
Active dev community, full-featured, REST + RPC

486
Easy to use
369
Great tool
275
Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
156
Easy setup, looks good
143
The best api workflow out there
53
It's the best
53
History feature
44
Adds real value to my workflow
42
Great interface that magically predicts your needs
34
The best in class app
11
Can save and share script
9
Fully featured without looking cluttered
7
Collections
7
Global/Environment Variables
7
Option to run scrips
6
Shareable Collections
6
Dead simple and useful. Excellent
6
Dark theme easy on the eyes
5
Awesome customer support
5
Great integration with newman
4
The test script is useful
3
Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
3
Easy as pie
3
Saves responses
3
This has simplified my testing significantly
3
Simple
3
Documentation
2
Mocking API calls with predefined response
2
I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
2
API-network
1
Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
1
Continuous integration using newman
1
Graph
1
Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
1
Postman Runner CI Integration
1
Now supports GraphQL
0
<a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
0
Runner

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Cons of Apigility

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9
Stores credentials in HTTP
7
Poor GraphQL support
7
Bloated features and UI
6
Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
2
Expensive
1
Support websocket
1
Import curl
1
Import swagger
1
Can't prompt for per-request variables

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What is Apigility?

An API-based architecture is essential to agile delivery of mobile applications. Apigility provides JSON representations that can be parsed and used in any mobile framework; write for the web or native applications simultaneously!

What is Postman?

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

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