When I was building the REST APIs I found “Postman” Chrome extension is handy tool to test the REST apis. By using this we can make GET, POST, PUT etc… HTTP requests. It supports to send JSON, text, binary etc.. as payload.
You can create different environments like DEV, QA, PROD to manage the requests for each environment. Postman manages the history of requests to refer it later. If you want to save the requests, you can create collection and save the requests to that collection. We can export the collection and save it/share it with others to import and play with the requests.
You can find the list of available features here.
Siva Janapati is an Architect with experience in building Cloud Native Microservices architectures, Reactive Systems, Large scale distributed systems, and Serverless Systems. Siva has hands-on in architecture, design, and implementation of scalable systems using Cloud, Java, Go lang, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Spring, Spring Boot, Lightbend reactive tech stack, APIGEE edge & on-premise and other open-source, proprietary technologies. Expertise working with and building RESTful, GraphQL APIs. He has successfully delivered multiple applications in retail, telco, and financial services domains. He manages the GitHub(https://github.com/2013techsmarts) where he put the source code of his work related to his blog posts.
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