Fast Track Your API Development With Insomnia
A fast yet simple alternative to Postman for sending REST and GraphQL requests
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5 min readJan 22, 2021
If you are developing a set of APIs, chances are you already know Postman — an API Client for API development. Generally, one would use an API client to test APIs in terms of functionality, performance, security, reliability, and the correctness of the responses.
While Postman is the de facto standard for API testing and development, I would like to draw your attention to a fast and easy-to-use alternative to Postman — Insomnia REST Client.
The goal of this article is to share with you some of the handy tips and tricks that you can use with Insomnia, especially while developing GraphQL APIs, though it works great with REST too.
If you want to try out the APIs used in this article, feel free to check out:
