Tips and Tricks for Boosting Your Workflow with Postman

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APIs (and the tool that makes them easy to work with) are something that all developers use to manage how different pieces of software communicate with each other. For easier, faster work, you want to be using Postman the right way. Let’s look at a few simple tips and tricks to become a postman pro.

1. Organize Your Work with Collections

In postman you can create collections which are just like folder where you can place your API requests. This keeps your things neater and organized. You can write multiple requests and then group them together so that they can be called in one shot and easier to locate.

How to create a collection:

1. Open Postman.
2. In the left side you’ll see ‘Collections.’ To create a new one, click on the “+” button.
3. For example call it ‘My Cool API Requests’.
4. Place drag and drop requests into this collection.

In this way, you’ll never lose your API requests and they will always be in the right place.

2. Use Environments to Avoid Repeating Yourself

You might sometimes have to execute the same request on different servers, let’s say on the test server…