Postman vs Task
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It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. | It is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make. Since it's written in Go, Task is just a single binary and has no other dependencies, which means you don't need to mess with any complicated install setups just to use a build tool. |
Compact layout;HTTP requests with file upload support;Formatted API responses for JSON and XML;Image previews;Request history;Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpers;Autocomplete for URL and header values;Key/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.;Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.;Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivity;Automatically generated web documentation;Mock servers hosted on Postman’s cloud;API monitoring run from Postman cloud | Easy installation: just download a single binary, add to $PATH and you're done! Or you can also install using Homebrew, Snapcraft, or Scoop if you want;
Available on CIs: by adding this simple command to install on your CI script and you're ready to use Task as part of your CI pipeline;
Truly cross-platform: while most build tools only work well on Linux or macOS, Task also supports Windows thanks to this shell interpreter for Go;
Great for code generation: you can easily prevent a task from running if a given set of files haven't changed since last run (based either on its timestamp or content) |
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GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 14.1K |
GitHub Forks 0 | GitHub Forks 754 |
Stacks 96.1K | Stacks 108 |
Followers 82.5K | Followers 116 |
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