The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? (efp.asia)

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

https://justuse.org/curl/

So much work and investigation into a tool that is a front end for something already on your system.

[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago

That does not really work for DX... Or collaboration. Or testing. Or documentation.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Na, that is you not reading the Frequently Asked Dumb Questions

Q: What about team collaboration?

A: It's a text file. Put it in Git. You know, that thing you should be using anyway? Now your requests have version control, code review, and diffs. For free. Revolutionary, I know.

Q: But Postman has testing and automation!

A: So does cURL in a shell script with || and && and actual programming languages. You want assertions? Pipe to grep or write a 3-line Python script. Done.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Lol, I know absolutely nothing about Postman but seriously suggesting Bash scripts, curl and grep as a way to test APIs is a nice way to tell people not to bother listening to your worthless opinions!

A Python script is far more reasonable.

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