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Test a hapi server with Postman

Test a hapi server with Postman

From the course: Angular: Creating and Hosting a Full-Stack Site

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Test a hapi server with Postman

- [Instructor] So as we move forward with our server development, it's going to be very important for us to have an easy and reliable way to test it. So far, just typing the URL into our browser has worked. But for some of the complicated operations we're going to want to implement for our app, this won't quite be good enough. What a lot of people do to test their backend is to develop a feature on their front end first, and then use that to test the backend. But in practice, I found that it's generally much easier just to develop the front end and backend in isolation and then bring them together. And that's what we're going to be doing in this course. So a tool that's used by many developers for doing this sort of backend only testing is a free piece of software called postman. So if you don't already have postman, you can download it from the link that you see here. So once you've downloaded and installed postman, let's…

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