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Edmundo Sanchez

Well, I mean... The point of using Postman is to organize and to avoid dealing with Curl, and to have a pretty UI so you can just click things.

If I have to run away from postman (I use Insomnia nowdays), I would prefer using a testing framework like rspec or pytest so I can keep tjings documented and use a nicer request library.

Curl has always been the default go-to quick-for-testing sny api endpoint, jowever things can get dofficulot if you have to sign your requests like with AWS endpoints, where not even postman would bee a good alternative.

I guess my two cents here is: curl has always been there for you and always have been, but using it as a postman alternative has the potential to consume your time