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

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Nick Rameau • Edited

Meh, Postman is still better than this in my humble opinion. They're making you pay for a good reason. I'm getting old, I want a nice an intuitive interface. I pay to save my time and Postman is really helping with this.

EDIT: I just tested it, still a big MEH. Not sure how big your projects are but I feel this is not suitable for the size of my projects.

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Jonathan BROSSARD

Hmm, if it fit you and your team organisation, it can be a solution, for sure :) We're trying here, to avoid to get thousands of tools and be sure to be up to date with "just the repo".

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Nick Rameau • Edited

You must be doing a lot. I use a lot of tools too (I work fully digitally), but I close the ones I don't use right away.

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Jonathan BROSSARD

Some ones are always opened you know (IDE, Slack, Database connection, Terminal, Trello, Chrome etc..) hard to be able to close each tool one you're done with.

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Nick Rameau

That's really not a lot. And that's about all I need as a fullstack developer. The terminal is part of VSCode and I use pen and paper for my tasks (with ClickUp for project management). I don't use any messaging app WHILE coding, no distractions.

Even tho I dabble with many parts of the systems I maintain and build, I don't have more than 6-8 apps open at the same time. And this is not even half of the apps I can handle open at the same time.

I feel like we're bringing a problem that does not exist just to justify the use of this tool... and I feel like a hater, so I'll stop at this. ;) I hope it's useful to anyone else. I'll try to get more invested into testing it out in the future.

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Rich

We have a lot of REST APIs to test, as well as a lot of variables that need changing on the fly quickly by testers to test certain scenarios. For us, Postman works better. This plugin is ok but we have powershell scripts that can do the same stuff and its not as intuitive.

I get the idea behind this in that it just "fits" into version control etc and in theory its easier to have VSCode installed, but I think there is space for both of these tools. This extension fits nicely for quick dev test stuff, but I think I still prefer Postman for more complex scenarios, plus it has a host of other features.