- [Instructor] In this course, at some point,
we'll need to be able to test and use the API endpoints.
This is where Postman will be used to allow us to get data,
post new items, update, or delete them.
So go to getpostman.com and then scroll to the button
right here, and then click download the app,
and then download the version for your OS.
This works on Mac and Windows as well.
So you can actually use it for Linux as well,
but I've never tried it, so I don't know if it's going to
look the same, but feel free to do so if you are on Linux.
Once you have this package, install it, it's fairly simple.
And then you need to connect it to either
your Google account or sign up to connect
all of your requests directly inside of the application.
So once you have it installed, it looks something like this.
And this is where you can actually make requests.
At the top here, you can select the protocol
that you'd like to make a request from,
so get post, put, and all the usual suspects.
Then you enter the URL, and then you can enter the params,
authorization, if you have any request that needs that.
And then you can enter the headers
if you have any specific headers to enter,
and then the body of your request.
So the key value pair that you need to send data to.
So for example, if you're adding new contacts
into your CRM application, then you can enter
the key value pairs directly in this form here.
But one of the things that I really like
about this application is that it provides snippets of code
for your application or language you're using.
So if you want to use any of that code,
when you made your request, you can click on code here,
and then you're going to get the code
for your specific language.
So for example, if we're using node JS native,
then this is the code that you would enter
into your front end.
If you're using any other languages,
so for example, C, C sharp, Go, and so on, so forth,
you can get the snippets of code
for those specific language.
So for example, java, you can click here
and get the code for that particular language.
So this is how you can use that application
to make requests, and you can leave it open
while we're doing this course,
in case you need to make any tests with your application.