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Postman In 3 Minutes

Daniel Hintz on November 14, 2020

I've heard a lot about Postman, people talk about it so matter-of-factly that I was concerned I was way behind the curve having never used it. Rec...
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Chad Adams • Edited

Postman is overrated. Insomnia REST API is way better. It’s free and open source. Postman’s free tier is limited and their team plans are expensive. You can do everything in Insomnia that you can do in Postman. Even if you needed to pay for Insomnia (If you need data sync or in a team) it's significantly cheaper than Postman.

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Hammed Oyedele

For the sync part, there is also a free plugin that syncs to GitHub Gist 🎊🎊🎊

I have been using Insomnia for years now and I have wrote a couple of plugins for it.

insomnia.rest/plugins/insomnia-plu...

insomnia.rest/plugins/insomnia-plu...

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Chad Adams • Edited

Oh sweet, that's pretty useful! Didn't know that. Now I really have no idea why people still use Postman haha

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Hammed Oyedele

I guess because it came before Insomnia and people enjoying sticking with old technologies.

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Daniel Hintz

Nice. I'll have to check out Insomnia! In full transparency, I used Postman simply because it's what I've heard others talking about - didn't really evaluate other options 🀦

Thanks for commenting with that suggestion!

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Beeblebrox

How insomnia (and postman) handle credentials in collections uploaded to the cloud for sync?

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l3lackheart

I started with postman. But since using wsl2, postman cannot connect to virtual domain on wsl2, this problem also occurs even when using cURL on CLI windows platform. But insomnia can do it. Not only that, insomnia is also fast and smooth at a perceived level, compared to postman. You should give it a look, too 😁😁

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Yash_Jaiswal

Another great article πŸ‘πŸ™Œ. I would like to know more about the backend coding challenge and about your journey as a full stack web developer.

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Daniel Hintz

Thanks!
Sure, I'm happy to share. Anything specific that you're curious about?

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kmumahesh

May I know where you attended the backend challenge?

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Daniel Hintz

Sure, the backend challenge was part of the interview process at a company called Fetch Rewards. They sent me some specs and asked me to build a web service.

Keep in mind that the code and HTTP Requests written out in this post are simplified examples and not the actual code used in the challenge.

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Yash_Jaiswal

How did you got started with web development? Your tech stack?

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Daniel Hintz

I've been working in tech for ~6 years in non-development roles, but I recently graduated a full-stack coding bootcamp to learn the coding side of things and am working on changing career paths now.

My stack is currently Ruby-on-Rails (with SQL/ActiveRecord) and React.js, but this is mostly because that's what the bootcamp taught. If I were to start over again, I would probably learn PHP to start instead of Ruby. There's just a lot more demand for entry-level PHP developers in today's market.

As luck would have it, my first post was about my journey, so feel free to take a look there and let me know if you want further details about anything.

How about yourself? Where are you in your journey?