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API ToolsWhat is Postman?
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Postman is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Compact layoutHTTP requests with file upload supportFormatted API responses for JSON and XMLImage previewsRequest historyBasic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpersAutocomplete for URL and header valuesKey/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivityAutomatically generated web documentationMock servers hosted on Postman’s cloudAPI monitoring run from Postman cloud
Postman Pros & Cons
Pros of Postman
- ✓Easy to use
- ✓Great tool
- ✓Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
- ✓Easy setup, looks good
- ✓The best api workflow out there
- ✓History feature
- ✓It's the best
- ✓Adds real value to my workflow
- ✓Great interface that magically predicts your needs
- ✓The best in class app
Cons of Postman
- ✗Stores credentials in HTTP
- ✗Bloated features and UI
- ✗Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
- ✗Poor GraphQL support
- ✗Expensive
- ✗Can't prompt for per-request variables
- ✗Not free after 5 users
- ✗Import curl
- ✗Import swagger
- ✗Support websocket
Postman Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Postman?
Google Maps
Create rich applications and stunning visualisations of your data, leveraging the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usability of Google Maps and a modern web platform that scales as you grow.
gRPC
gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking...
Apache Camel
An open source Java framework that focuses on making integration easier and more accessible to developers.
Zapier
Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis.
