There is no doubt that Postman is one of the most popular and essential tools for API development and testing, particularly for front-end web developers. It is used by over 3 million developers across the world, which is a good indication of the fact that Postman is an essential tool for REST API development and API Testing. It is also one of the vital tools for Web Developers, and I have already included Postman in my list of 10 Things Every Web Developer should learn in 2025. If you agree with me that Postman is definitely worth learning for frontend and backend developers and looking for some excellent resources to master this awesome tool, then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share some of the best online courses and tutorials to learn Postman for API testing and development.
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How to POST JSON request from Linux to test RESTful Web Services? Example
Even though, Postman is a great tool and chrome plugin to test RESTful Web services for Java developers, I often find myself using "curl" or "cURL" command in Linux for testing RESTful Web Services, particularly Java web services built using Spring or Spring Boot framework. The curl command is easily available on most of Linux hosts and you just need to type a command to sent various types of HTTP requests to your application from Linux command line, as shown here. Though, many RESTful web developer and tester knows this trick, they mainly use GET request to access data from web service and many of them struggle to send HTTP POST request containing JSON data to create new resources.
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