#Postman download linux how to#

So the very first thing that I'm going to do is copy this first line. So with all that means that I will include a link to this BlueMatador post in your show notes and that is going to give you the set of commands you need in order to install this.

When I'm building out a flask API application, or a react application, or a Rails application I can use Postman for all of them because all it does is it all only cares about is the data request and so that's why it's really helpful and it's a tool I use pretty much on a daily basis because I do a lot of API development.

This is a very helpful way that you can build out applications, and pass data back and forth then no matter what type of course that you're going through you can use Postman since it's not specific to a programming language or a framework or anything like that. So an API is a service kind of like a website or server that you can communicate with, but instead of getting a web page back, you get data back. Now if you've never heard of Postman, what it is is a very helpful application that allows you to communicate with outside APIs.

#Postman download linux how to#

So right here I have a link to BlueMatador (link below) that has this very helpful guide on how to install Postman on your Linux machine. The commands that we're going to walk through today are specifically targeted to working with a Linux virtual box type of environment. If you're going through this and you're not following along on Linux, you can also do the exact same thing on Mac or Windows. Now if all of these concepts are new to you do not worry all this is really going to focus on is configuring your environment.