Enhancing API Functionality with Advanced Tooling

Let's explore some of the more useful developer tools and resources.

Postman Collections

Postman has over 20 million users on its platform. Being an API tool, this means that all 20 million users are part of the target audience for any API product. For internal APIs, Postman Collections are a way for developers to collaborate and test APIs. In large organizations, internal Postman Collections also help with the discoverability of APIs across the organization.

The public workspaces in Postman are particularly useful for getting our APIs discovered by new audiences. Getting positioned on Postman’s public network allows API producers to use the 20 million users of Postman as a growth mechanism. The most prominent API producers, such as Meta, PayPal, Stripe, Twilio, and so on, publish official Postman Collections of their APIs to enable customers to easily get started with trying out their APIs in a familiar interface. Developers can start exploring APIs via Postman Collections without having to write any code, which also helps them get working examples of any requests they want to make in case they get errors.

The easy-to-use interface of Postman also allows enables low-code/no-code users who are either trying to generate some API code or doing business use case-testing using Postman.

Low-code and no-code tooling

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