Postman launchpad
Postman launchpad is a collection of features that you can use when you open up the app. You can create individual requests, create API, API collection, and environment.Postman launchpad
Create API
Creating API makes it super easy to develop API. Just click the ‘Create a new API’ from the launchpad, and it’ll open the following dialogue box asking for the basic information regarding the API. Enter the API name, version, Schema type, and Schema format.Create new API Once the API is created, it’ll be listed in the sidebar. Click the API to perform actions on the API.Postman APIs list Create a Postman schema. To easily create APIs endpoints, it creates a test Schema by default. Change it to create the URLs as per your project demands. After the schema is ready, generate collections by clicking the “Generate Collections” button as highlighted above.Create API collection This will generate the collections of routes. As you can see in the image below, there is a collection of task manager APIs.Postman collections routes Clicking each URL will allow you to customize your request and send it to the server. You can change request parameters, send auth credentials, custom headers, body data, etc. Once the request is sent, the output returned from the server is previewed below.Create request Postman
Download & Install Postman on Linux
It is available for all major platforms, including Linux. Download the tar file from the official website. Uncompress it and run Postman.
Install Postman snap
If your distribution supports snap apps, you can install them from the snap store. If your Linux distribution does not support snap apps, then install them using the following command –
On debian or Ubuntu based distributions –
sudo apt install snapd
Install snap on Fedora distributions –
sudo dnf install snapd
Install snap on CentOS –
First, install the EPEL repository. Install EPEL repository on CentOS 8 –
sudo dnf install epel-release sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf install snapd
Install EPEL repository on CentOS 7 –
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install snapd
Enable snap communication sockets
sudo systemctl enable –now snapd.socket sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Install from snap store
Or install it snap from command-line –
sudo snap install postman
