Introducing Postman

Learn how to use Postman, a complete API development environment, to enhance your API development experience.

Introduction

• Enhancing API development with Postman
• What you should know
• What is Postman?
• Postman: Header and footer
• Postman: Sidebar and request builder
• Run the sample API

1. Compose Requests

• Your first request
• Manage query string parameters
• Manage cookies
• Manage request headers
• Manage header presets
• Build a request body
• Challenge: Composing a request
• Solution: Composing a request

2. Manage Requests

• Workspaces
• Collections and folders
• Authenticate requests
• Using request history
• Document requests
• Provide examples
• View documentation
• Publish documentation
• Challenge: Organize and document
• Solution: Organize and document

3. Environments and Variables

• What are environments?
• Managing environments
• Managing variables
• Using variables in requests
• Authorization with variables
• Variable shortcuts
• Challenge: Body variables
• Solution: Body variables

Conclusion

• Next steps