![]() ![]() ![]() If this is an internal API or something proprietary being built for a client, this means trusting a 3rd party (Postman, the company) with the API, and environment information. This requires a paid Teams account on Postman. However, if working on a team, it will require being able to share the collection(s) of HTTP requests and environments configuration (dev, qa, staging, prod, etc.) to test your API. If you're working by yourself on a project, then the Postman free tier can be sufficient as there's no need to share collections with anyone else. It would be nicer to stay in the editor where I can continue to use my preferred keyboard shortcuts, fonts and themes. This requires a context switch, which creates just enough friction to make me a little irritated. Postman is a separate application that needs to be downloaded and installed, and is separate from the text editor/IDE I use for development (which is VS Code). The following is just my perspective using it as a developer. In fact its very good, feature rich, constantly evolving, and certainly solves a lot of problems for a lot of teams and companies. However, I'd like to share another tool, a VS Code extension that is working better for me, as an alternative to Postman.īut first, why not just stick with Postman? Below I've outlined a few pain points that have caused me to seek out an alternative.ĭisclaimer This is not at all to suggest that Postman is a bad product. Postman is a very popular choice and I used to reach for this all the time. If you've been doing web development for any length of time, you've probably built or worked on an HTTP REST style API and needed a REST Client to test it. ![]()
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