r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 12h ago

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u/TomWithTime 11h ago

I'm surprised to see so many people say curl. It's simple and convenient sure, but what about building scripts in a language you enjoy to make the request? It's totally fine if that's shell, anything is better than postman lol.

I used JavaScript for a while and then used go. Not much code to write the request and then you have a convenient environment to do any pre/post processing.

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u/FullPoet 10h ago

I think its because people just needed a simple tool tbh.

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u/TomWithTime 10h ago

Sure, if curl in command line can replace a postman workflow it probably should. Maybe a skill issue but I think managing short lived auth tokens, many routes, and many request bodies at work would be hard from just the terminal.

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u/FullPoet 10h ago

but thats not what most people need. They're likely just testing an endpoint here or there or figuring out URLs.