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You are looking at a REST API and want to poke around it. What environment do you reach for? curl? node repl? postman?

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so you're writing json payloads in vscode and calling curl from integrated terminal?

curl. Postman got super bloated. 

Node is cool but I curl cause I can pipe it into jq and other utils and process it really easily.

And most don’t know curl accepts “curl … -d @<path>.json” for longer payloads.

I have a “playground” folder on my desktop that is just a bunch of .ts files with random scripts I can run easily with bun. Great for testing new things

Or postman

It depends:

1- In hurry / testing only 1 or 2 points: curl
2- moderate time preference / testing multiple points + complex response data: Node repl
3- Chance to turn into a serious prj + complex response data: The old Postman.

I also use IDE tools/plugins sometimes.

I always start with curl in the terminal👀, sometimes it leads to a bash script to continue later 👣

Postman. Api and response in the same interface.