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Discussion on: Bye bye Postman ! Let's share your REST API calls in team, easily !

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Jonathan BROSSARD

I understand your point.

Export Postman collection exposes you as the fact that you always need to do that (Postman don't auto save into your repo) and it's pretty boring.

The main point here is to be able to maintain it into a repo, without need another tool. It could be a shell script which make cURLs... but can be a pain in the @$$ to get all available features you'll find with REST Client, into a simple shell script.

I fully understand your point about the IDE. Really. In my case, I use during many years Emacs, then Sublime Text, and did not want to get a big IDE. But I opened VS Code and many others, and check the time saved ... based on our tech stack, currently VS Code seems to be the best choice.

I we would to have a final word, we could say that the better world is a .yml file to get a swagger