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Dimer vs Postman: What are the differences?

What is Dimer? Dimer generates a clean and beautiful documentation website from Markdown. Dimer makes it easy to publish your documentation, with a distraction-free writing experience and beautiful, handcrafted themes.

What is 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.

Dimer belongs to "Documentation as a Service & Tools" category of the tech stack, while Postman can be primarily classified under "API Tools".

Some of the features offered by Dimer are:

extended markdown
documentation
slick writing experience

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

Advice on Dimer and Postman

StackShare Editors

May 1, 2019 | 5 upvotes · 220.8K 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 · 248.7K 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 · 237K 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 · 220.2K 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 Dimer and Postman

Stephen Fox

Artificial Intelligence Fellow · Feb 4, 2020 | 1 upvote · 222.3K 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 Dimer

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486
Easy to use
369
Great tool
274
Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
155
Easy setup, looks good
143
The best api workflow out there
53
History feature
53
It's the best
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
Option to run scrips
7
Global/Environment Variables
6
Dead simple and useful. Excellent
6
Shareable Collections
6
Dark theme easy on the eyes
5
Awesome customer support
5
Great integration with newman
4
Simple
4
The test script is useful
4
Documentation
3
Easy as pie
3
Saves responses
3
Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
3
This has simplified my testing significantly
2
API-network
2
I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
2
Mocking API calls with predefined response
1
Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
1
Graph
1
Postman Runner CI Integration
1
Now supports GraphQL
1
Continuous integration using newman
1
Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
0
<a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
0
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Cons of Dimer

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9
Stores credentials in HTTP
7
Poor GraphQL support
7
Bloated features and UI
7
Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
3
Expensive
2
Not free after 5 users
2
Can't prompt for per-request variables
1
Support websocket
1
Import curl
1
Import swagger

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What is Dimer?

Dimer makes it easy to publish your documentation, with a distraction-free writing experience and beautiful, handcrafted themes.

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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What are some alternatives to Dimer and Postman?

Polymer

Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.

Swagger UI

Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API

Apiary

It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.

Gitbook

It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.

jsdoc

JSDoc 3 is an API documentation generator for JavaScript, similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc. You add documentation comments directly to your source code, right along side the code itself. The JSDoc Tool will scan your source code, and generate a complete HTML documentation website for you.

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