1 00:00:03,719 --> 00:00:04,860 Welcome back. 2 00:00:04,890 --> 00:00:10,110 In this video, let's see how we can use Postman for API Development. 3 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:14,310 The previous video we made use of this extension called Tenda. 4 00:00:14,340 --> 00:00:17,460 So it's going to perform the same functionality. 5 00:00:18,740 --> 00:00:20,700 So what is Postman? 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,730 Like I said, Postman is a tool for API development. 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,480 So let's go ahead and download Postman. 8 00:00:28,490 --> 00:00:32,980 So scroll down and under download app. 9 00:00:32,990 --> 00:00:34,280 Click on that. 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,280 So I am going to download this version for my operating system. 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:47,410 So I click on download, but I have downloaded it already, so let me cancel the download and after 12 00:00:47,410 --> 00:00:50,860 downloading open it and this what you are going to see. 13 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:54,970 So after that make sure that you create an account. 14 00:00:54,970 --> 00:01:00,640 So if you don't have an account, click on create or you can sign in with your Gmail account. 15 00:01:00,730 --> 00:01:02,500 So click on that. 16 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:09,580 So here you can sign up using your email or you can sign up using your Gmail account. 17 00:01:09,580 --> 00:01:14,380 So because I have an account, I'll click this one to sign in. 18 00:01:14,380 --> 00:01:18,310 And the signing in is pretty simple using your Google account. 19 00:01:18,310 --> 00:01:20,020 So I have to account. 20 00:01:20,020 --> 00:01:21,760 Let me click on this one. 21 00:01:22,090 --> 00:01:25,780 So after clicking on that, this is what you are going to see. 22 00:01:25,810 --> 00:01:28,080 Good evening, Web dev. 23 00:01:28,090 --> 00:01:31,210 So now let me take you through the interface. 24 00:01:31,210 --> 00:01:32,500 All right, great. 25 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,950 So the first thing is we need to customize if you want it. 26 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:39,160 So let's click on settings here and click on settings. 27 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:44,980 And here we have two versions, Dark Theme or the light theme, the one that you want. 28 00:01:44,980 --> 00:01:47,140 But I will stick to like theme. 29 00:01:47,590 --> 00:01:54,910 And under general right here, if you want to increase the fonts of the text, you can change it here. 30 00:01:54,910 --> 00:01:59,050 You can make it 16 or 17 or 20, depending how you want it. 31 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,330 And under user interface, if you want to have two pen view, we can change it here. 32 00:02:04,330 --> 00:02:05,830 So now let me close it. 33 00:02:05,830 --> 00:02:12,100 The next step is we need to create a workspace, so let's click this one and now let's go ahead and 34 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:13,570 create a workspace. 35 00:02:13,780 --> 00:02:17,620 And workspace simply means that where we are going to keep all your roots. 36 00:02:17,620 --> 00:02:20,950 So for the mean time, let's make it express. 37 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:28,630 Express routing, and then you can give a description about the workspace. 38 00:02:28,630 --> 00:02:35,400 So now and visibility let me change to personal because it is only me who is going to develop this API. 39 00:02:35,410 --> 00:02:38,230 So let me click on Create Workspace. 40 00:02:38,230 --> 00:02:39,880 So let's wait a moment. 41 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:44,170 And after that here we have couple of tasks here. 42 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,410 The one that we care most is called collections. 43 00:02:47,410 --> 00:02:50,290 So collections are the pieces of the root. 44 00:02:50,290 --> 00:02:56,290 So here we can create a collection for what we are going to do is about posts, right? 45 00:02:56,290 --> 00:02:59,770 So you name it as post collection as that. 46 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:07,150 And then inside is time to create our requests as we did inside the tender client. 47 00:03:07,180 --> 00:03:11,860 You can see here that we add date the root here. 48 00:03:11,890 --> 00:03:15,730 The same thing going to provide us inside postman. 49 00:03:15,850 --> 00:03:18,010 So now I'm back to post mine here. 50 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:25,870 Let's add our first request and now let's change this one to lists or post it enter. 51 00:03:26,230 --> 00:03:29,620 You can see this is same as the tender client. 52 00:03:29,620 --> 00:03:32,410 We need to provide the HTTP method. 53 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:38,890 They are all listed here and then the you are our so here for fetching single record here. 54 00:03:38,890 --> 00:03:40,330 This is a URL. 55 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,640 I'll copy that and then paste it here. 56 00:03:42,910 --> 00:03:44,800 So this is get request. 57 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,620 So now when I hit send, have a look. 58 00:03:47,620 --> 00:03:52,150 You can see that I have it as I used the turn the client. 59 00:03:52,150 --> 00:03:53,470 So now the same thing. 60 00:03:53,470 --> 00:03:57,400 If I hit send inside here, I get the same result. 61 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:58,150 Welcome. 62 00:03:58,150 --> 00:04:01,300 So now I'll click on this one to save it. 63 00:04:01,690 --> 00:04:04,150 The next endpoints is to create. 64 00:04:04,150 --> 00:04:14,590 So I'll click on this and duplicate and I'm going to rename this one to create posts and the endpoint 65 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,149 going to be post. 66 00:04:17,910 --> 00:04:22,260 And the HTTP method is going to be posts and now the endpoint. 67 00:04:22,260 --> 00:04:27,420 There is no slash like this, but instead for a slide post, let me save it. 68 00:04:27,420 --> 00:04:29,190 And now let me hit send. 69 00:04:29,190 --> 00:04:35,760 And now you see that I get create posts which the same as we did inside the client. 70 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:42,510 And after that let me duplicate that one to click and click this one and click on duplicate and let 71 00:04:42,510 --> 00:04:43,890 me do that quickly. 72 00:04:43,890 --> 00:04:47,490 So let me change this one to fetch single post. 73 00:04:47,490 --> 00:04:52,830 So here I'm going to be single post and we use what is called gate request. 74 00:04:52,830 --> 00:04:56,880 So here provides with dynamic ID any ID here. 75 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,190 When I hit send, you see that I have welcome. 76 00:05:00,210 --> 00:05:03,030 So let me hit save here to save it. 77 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,350 The next one is going to be update. 78 00:05:07,350 --> 00:05:09,690 Right, so let me duplicate this one. 79 00:05:10,020 --> 00:05:18,630 So I would change this one to update post and the HTTP method is put and definitely the same route. 80 00:05:18,630 --> 00:05:21,420 So let me save it and then let me hit send. 81 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:24,660 And lastly, it's about the delete. 82 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:34,500 So let me rename it and change this one to delete post, delete post and let me change the HTTP method 83 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:35,430 to delete. 84 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:39,900 Let me save it and let me hit send and now I have delete posts. 85 00:05:40,290 --> 00:05:47,550 All right, now that we have the to the next video, let's go ahead and implement the actual data where 86 00:05:47,550 --> 00:05:55,140 we can run the server and create a file and then folder where we can add post to the file and many more. 87 00:05:55,170 --> 00:05:57,510 Let's get into that in the next video.