Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

Introducing REST APIs Chapter 4

Introducing Postman

Postman is a tool that lets us develop and test our APIs faster. This tool provides a GUI that
makes it easy to tweak our APIs faster, which decreases the development time of our APIs.

We can also maintain a history by creating a collection of all the APIs that we have
developed.

There are different alternatives for Postman as well, such as Runscope and Paw. We will be

using Postman for this book.

Installing Postman

There are different ways to use Postman:

1. We can get the Chrome extension as follows: If you visit https:/​/​chrome.
   google.​com/​webstore/​detail/​postman/​fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop?
   hl=​en, we will see the following:

Click on the Add to Chrome button and the extension will be installed.