This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Abayomi Ogunnusi
Postman is an API platform that allows you to create and use APIs.
Postman streamlines collaboration and simplifies each phase of the API lifecycle, allowing you to design better APIs faster. Let's start testing.
Table Of Content
🥦 Environment variables
🥦 Generating random names
🥦 Postman Console
🥦 Path variable
Environment variables
Duplicating codes and links during API testing is always a hassle.
First, highlight the url and set it as a variable.
Now imagine writing this whole baseUrl for every instances of GET, POST, DELETE, PUT and PATCH request. It get tiresome. There is a hack to this.
Also, when you can set token as variable with few steps. Highlight the token and set it as a variable.
Generating random names
This is my favorite, ever want to register new users and your brain just ran out of John Doe. Do not worry, help is on the way. This generate random name and email
Postman Console
Postman also has its own console, where you may see a log of server responses.
Path variable
Conclusion
This is just a quick overview of what you can do with Postman to test APIs.
Googling what postman can accomplish will provide you with more functionality.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Abayomi Ogunnusi
Abayomi Ogunnusi | Sciencx (2021-11-30T08:07:01+00:00) Postman Hacks. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/11/30/postman-hacks/
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