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Advice on Deployd, Insomnia REST Client, and Postman

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May 1, 2019 | 5 upvotes · 361K 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 · 389.3K views

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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 · 377.2K views

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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 · 360.3K views

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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 Deployd, Insomnia REST Client, and Postman

Stephen Fox

Artificial Intelligence Fellow · Feb 4, 2020 | 1 upvote · 343.5K 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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Its simple to use to make a demo for customer and show
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Very simple to use. Love the real time features

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Easy to work with
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Great user interface
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Works with GraphQL
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Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux
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Opensource
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Vim and Emacs key map
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Preserves request templates
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Does not have history feature

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Easy to use
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Great tool
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Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
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Easy setup, looks good
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The best api workflow out there
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It's the best
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History feature
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Adds real value to my workflow
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Great interface that magically predicts your needs
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The best in class app
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Can save and share script
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Fully featured without looking cluttered
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Collections
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Option to run scrips
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Global/Environment Variables
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Shareable Collections
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Dead simple and useful. Excellent
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Dark theme easy on the eyes
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Awesome customer support
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Great integration with newman
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Documentation
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Simple
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The test script is useful
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Saves responses
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This has simplified my testing significantly
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Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
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Easy as pie
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API-network
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I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
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Mocking API calls with predefined response
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Now supports GraphQL
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Postman Runner CI Integration
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Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
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Continuous integration using newman
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Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
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Runner
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Graph
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Do not have team sharing options
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Do not store credentials in HTTP

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Stores credentials in HTTP
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Bloated features and UI
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Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
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Poor GraphQL support
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Expensive
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Not free after 5 users
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Can't prompt for per-request variables
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Import swagger
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Support websocket
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Import curl

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Deployd is the simplest way to build realtime APIs for web and mobile apps. Ready-made, configurable Resources add common functionality to a Deployd backend, which can be further customized with JavaScript Events.

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Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

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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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