Like we are just discussing we've now got our poster quest handler and we need some way to test it out
so to test out all these different root handlers we're gonna build inside of our API.
We're gonna use a little tool called postman in this video we're gonna download and set up this tool
and understand how to use it.
So to download this tool we're gonna navigate to get postman dot com inside of a new browser window
once here you can find the Get Started link and then download the postman client.
Now I'm on Mac OS so going to download the Mac OS Version Of course if you're on Windows or Linux.
Go ahead and find the appropriate download link on here as well if you're on Windows the installation
is going to be really easy.
So on windows you're going to download a little installer just go ahead and run it and click through
that little installation wizard if you're on Mac OS.
However you have to do just one quick manual step.
Now I've already downloaded that zip file ahead of time so let me pull up that directory really quickly.
There we go.
So once you've downloaded this thing you will have a zip file just like mine right here.
We're going to first double click that file to extract it and that's gonna give us the actual postman
application so we can then install it onto our local machine by dragging and dropping that into our
applications directory
once we've installed it we can flip over to the applications folder and find post man on this list.
So there's postman right there.
It's all started up we might see a little security warning and there we go.
And you're gonna be prompted right away to sign in with postman.
You do not have to create an account you can find a link down here at the very bottom that says Skip
signing in so going to skip signing in and we'll see a window like this right here.
So we're going to use this interface to test out our API quite a bit to make a request to our API.
We can set up a new request right here by selecting the type of request or the method of it.
So in our case we want to try out a post request and then the URL that we want to make our request to.
So in our case we want to make our request to local host colon 3000 slash and then our route that we
just added in is slash sign up.
So local is three thousand.
Sign up like so I'll then click sent.
And that's gonna make our request.
I can then see the response down here that said you made a post request and that is of course the code
that we just wrote into our request handler.
OK.
So we can use postman quite a bit.
Like I said throughout this application in order to test our API without actually having to build an
entire react native application just to test out these different routes it's now that we've got postman
ready to go.
Let's take another quick pause.
When we come back the next video we're gonna do some additional setup inside of our request handler.