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Autocode IDE vs Postman: What are the differences?

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Autocode IDE and Postman are popular tools used in software development. While both tools offer similar functionality, there are key differences between the two. In this article, we will explore these differences and understand what sets them apart.

  1. User Interface: Autocode IDE provides a more intuitive and user-friendly interface compared to Postman. The Autocode IDE has a clean and modern design, making it easy for users to navigate and access different features. On the other hand, Postman has a slightly more complex and cluttered UI, which may require more time for new users to get familiar with.

  2. Code Generation: Autocode IDE focuses on code generation and automation, allowing developers to quickly generate code snippets and templates for various programming languages and frameworks. This feature is especially useful for accelerating development speed and reducing human error. In contrast, Postman primarily focuses on API testing and documentation, with limited code generation capabilities.

  3. Collaboration and Sharing: Autocode IDE offers robust collaboration and-sharing features, enabling teams to work together seamlessly on projects. It allows developers to share their code snippets and templates with others, enabling collaboration and knowledge-sharing. Postman, on the other hand, offers collaboration features but is more centered around individual workflow rather than large-scale team collaboration.

  4. Integration Capabilities: Autocode IDE provides extensive integration capabilities with various APIs, databases, and services. It offers a wide range of pre-built connectors and allows developers to easily integrate their projects with third-party systems. Postman, while it does support integrations, does not offer the same level of extensive integration capabilities as Autocode IDE.

  5. Automation and Scheduled Tasks: Autocode IDE includes built-in automation and scheduling features, allowing developers to automate repetitive tasks and schedule code execution at specified intervals. This feature is particularly valuable for tasks such as data synchronization, data fetching, and periodic code execution. Postman lacks these automation and scheduling capabilities, primarily focusing on API testing and documentation.

  6. Deployment Options: Autocode IDE provides seamless deployment options for deploying applications to various cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It offers an easy-to-use deployment workflow, making it effortless to deploy and manage applications. Postman, being more focused on API testing, does not provide the same level of deployment options as Autocode IDE.

In Summary, Autocode IDE offers a more user-friendly interface, extensive code generation capabilities, robust collaboration features, extensive integration capabilities, built-in automation and scheduling tools, and seamless deployment options. On the other hand, Postman is more focused on API testing and documentation, with a slightly more complex UI, limited code generation capabilities, and less extensive integration and deployment options.

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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 389.3K views

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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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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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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Stephen Fox
Artificial Intelligence Fellow · | 1 upvote · 343.5K views

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 Autocode IDE
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    • 490
      Easy to use
    • 369
      Great tool
    • 276
      Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
    • 156
      Easy setup, looks good
    • 144
      The best api workflow out there
    • 53
      It's the best
    • 53
      History feature
    • 44
      Adds real value to my workflow
    • 43
      Great interface that magically predicts your needs
    • 35
      The best in class app
    • 12
      Can save and share script
    • 10
      Fully featured without looking cluttered
    • 8
      Collections
    • 8
      Option to run scrips
    • 8
      Global/Environment Variables
    • 7
      Shareable Collections
    • 7
      Dead simple and useful. Excellent
    • 7
      Dark theme easy on the eyes
    • 6
      Awesome customer support
    • 6
      Great integration with newman
    • 5
      Documentation
    • 5
      Simple
    • 5
      The test script is useful
    • 4
      Saves responses
    • 4
      This has simplified my testing significantly
    • 4
      Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
    • 4
      Easy as pie
    • 3
      API-network
    • 3
      I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
    • 3
      Mocking API calls with predefined response
    • 2
      Now supports GraphQL
    • 2
      Postman Runner CI Integration
    • 2
      Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
    • 2
      Continuous integration using newman
    • 2
      Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
    • 2
      Runner
    • 2
      Graph
    • 1
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    Cons of Autocode IDE
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      • 10
        Stores credentials in HTTP
      • 9
        Bloated features and UI
      • 8
        Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
      • 7
        Poor GraphQL support
      • 5
        Expensive
      • 3
        Not free after 5 users
      • 3
        Can't prompt for per-request variables
      • 1
        Import swagger
      • 1
        Support websocket
      • 1
        Import curl

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      What is Autocode IDE?

      It is an integrated development environment (IDE) for connecting APIs and creating app-to-app workflows. It provides API autocomplete, code generation, easy multi-app auth, in-browser code execution, dev environments, logging, revision history + mor

      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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