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Postman: A free tool for testing

Postman: A free tool for testing

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Postman: A free tool for testing

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- [Instructor] In our previous video, we created several new routes using the HTTP methods get, post, put, and delete. If we want to test the get method, it's pretty easy. We can just open our browser, go to the route, and we should see the data that we sent to the client. For the other HTTP methods, testing is a little bit more challenging. Luckily, there is a free tool that can help us test our routes called Postman. Postman has a lot of really cool features, but I'm going to keep things simple for the sake of our work with Express in this course, and just show you how to test our endpoints. We will start here on Postman.com. You have a couple of options when it comes to how you use Postman. For our purposes, we will need to download the desktop app to access our local host. Go ahead and select the operating system that you're working on, and download the desktop app. Since I'm working on a Mac, I'll go ahead and select the Mac icon, and then download the app on this next page. Once…

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