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Why I Don’t Use Postman Anymore…

4 min readJun 12, 2025

I used to think Postman was the best tool for APIs. Everyone around me was using it. So I did too.

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For more than a year, I used Postman for almost everything — testing APIs, checking responses, sending headers, and debugging bugs.

But a few months ago, I quietly stopped using it. And I don’t miss it at all.

In this blog, I will explain why I quit Postman, what I use now, and why it might be time for you to stop using it too.

How I Started Using Postman

When I first started learning backend development, Postman felt like magic.

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Kiran Maan

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You can export a Postman collection to a file, and then run it using Postman's CLI tool which is called Newman. It allows you to run your Postman tests along with the rest of your automated test suite. Very handy.

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Postman got replaced by insomnia which got replaced by..... ? Still looking there.

There is a reason for a gui though, and thats being able to store the last successful response and quickly see at a glance what that call would return in a sample…

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You probably have a login endpoint in your Postman collection. As a Post-response script of that endpoint, you could use something like this: ```const jwtDecode = pm.require('npm:jwt-decode@4.0.0');
if (pm.response.code == 200) {
const response =…

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