Rather than say just... use Postman?
I'm not disagreeing with the use, just wondering how they use it compared to Postman itself. I'm a n00b web dev, I just want to know how others work and why.
Postman started off as a Chrome Extension (ran in a chrome tab), and then became a Chrome App. The standalone apps for desktops came later. A lot of people use the chrome extension because it's convenient.
Source: I worked at Postman until about a year ago.
- Dork with code/ routes in one window and/or dorking around with the front end code.
- Postman (the stand alone program) in another window to check what the return from the server really is or what the API is doing now.
So I've got it on it's on dedicated space (not all the time but often enough).
Eg. whatsapp, 1password
However, the standalone app doesn't have that feature (yet). So I will continue to use the Chrome Extension version until they have that feature available in the Standalone app.
The only version that works is the Chrome App Postman, which simply uses the Chrome network stack, which obviously works behind the proxy.
Boooo to Postman.
If I'm not mistaken, it started as a browser extension.