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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Postman

In this section, you're going to learn how to use Postman. Postman is an essential tool if you're building a REST API. I have never worked with a team or on a project where Postman was not heavily used by every developer involved. Postman lets you create HTTP requests and fire them off. This makes it really easy to test that everything you're writing is working as expected. Now obviously, we will also be writing automated tests, but using Postman lets you play around with data and see how things work as you move through your API. It really is a fantastic tool.

We're going to head over to the browser and go to getpostman.com, and here we can grab their application:

Now I'm going to be using the Chrome application. To install it, all you have to do is install the Chrome app from the Chrome store, click Add to Chrome, and it should bring...

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