Introduction to Postman course notes

Unit 1 - Introduction to Postman

Lesson 1 - Welcome

📚 - Resources

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Lesson 2 - What is Postman?

💡 - Main ideas

• Postman is a tool that allows us to easily work with APIs.
• Postman is used to build HTTP requests that we send to the server running the API.

Lesson 3 - How to install Postman

💡 - Main ideas

• There are two ways to run Postman:
  • As a standalone app or
  • Directly in the browser
• The standalone app is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Postman on the web works from any browser but you may need to download the Postman Desktop Agent if your requests fail.
• DO NOT use the Google Chrome extension as this is deprecated and no longer updated.

📚 - Resources

• Download Postman App
• Open Postman on the web