From the course: MERN Essential Training (2020)
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Install the developer tools
From the course: MERN Essential Training (2020)
Install the developer tools
- [Instructor] React had a developer tool that allows the developers to see the state and the components and inspect what is going wrong or right while building your application. We'll also install another tool called Postman. So we can test our back end as we build it. So let's go ahead and install these tools. So the first one is getpostman.com, so go to this site, and once you get to this site, click on download the app, and then get the version for your operating system. So it's available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. And once you have the file, you can go ahead an install it, and once it's installed, this is what it's going to look like. So this is a very cool tool to actually test your back ends. So if you're not familiar with it, you're going to fall in love very quickly with that tool. But this allows us to enter the url of a request and then use any of the methods that are available for api requests, so, get…
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