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Dash

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Paw

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Followers277

+ 1

Votes164

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Advice on Dash, Paw, and Postman

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May 1, 2019 | 5 upvotes · 371.1K views

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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 · 399.5K 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).

Jadenko

May 3, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 387.4K 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.

Sadik Ay

Backend Engineer · Aug 31, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 370.4K 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.

Decisions about Dash, Paw, and Postman

Stephen Fox

Artificial Intelligence Fellow · Feb 4, 2020 | 1 upvote · 351.9K 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 Dash

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Dozens of API docs and Cheat-Sheets
12
Great for offline use
8
Works with Alfred
8
Excellent documentation
8
Quick API search
5
Fast
3
Good integration with Xcode and AppCode
2
Great for mobile dev work

46
Great interface
37
Easy to use
25
More stable and performant than the others
16
Saves endpoints list for testing
13
Supports environment variables
12
Integrations
9
Multi-Dimension Environment Settings
4
Paste curl commands into Paw
2
Creates code for any language or framework

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 Dash

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3
It's not free
2
MacOS Only

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 Dash?

Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included.

What is Paw?

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

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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