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 you over to the page where you can open up the application. Now, to open up Chrome apps, you have to go to this kind of weird URL. It's chrome...