jsonhero-web VS Newman

JSON Hero is another JSON viewer that allows us to explore and navigate our JSON data quickly and easily. Instead of providing a graphical visualization like JSON Crack, it allows us to see the structure of JSON in either a column, tree, or JSON layout.

Last year me and three friends launched a small open source project named jsonhero.io. We built it during our evenings and weekends, and to our surprise it quickly became super popular as a way to view JSON documents, receiving thousands of GitHub stars within a matter of weeks.

Suppose if you visit this link in your browser: lexica.art/api/v1/search?q=apples. You will get a JSON response back consisting of an array of images that match "apples". To understand the schema of the JSON response, you can use Postman or JSONHero.

JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization\ (136 comments)

It looks like it's open source and you can run it locally if you don't trust a third party website (and you probably shouldn't, depending on the data you paste in there): https://github.com/apihero-run/jsonhero-web

Testing Tools: Select suitable automated testing tools, such as OWASP Zap and Postman, for security and functionality testing.

Postman - API platform for easy endpoint testing

The results of the experiment to retrieve the existing product from the database by its id see GetProductByIdViaAuroraServerlessV2DataApiHandler with Lambda function with 1024 MB memory setting were based on reproducing more than 100 cold and approximately 10.000 warm starts with experiment which ran for approximately 1 hour. For it (and experiments from my previous article) I used the load test tool hey, but you can use whatever tool you want, like Serverless-artillery or Postman. We won't enable SnapStart on the Lambda function first.

Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected.

Products are available on our Strapi server. We need to be able to send HTTP requests that will allow clients or users to perform CRUD operations on these product resources. Postman will be our tool for making requests to the Strapi REST API.

We will be performing all of the authentication requests manually, however for testing purposes, you might want to use an API testing tool such as Postman or Insomnia.

As you can see in the above diagram, a lambda function is scheduled to be executed periodically by EventBridge. This lambda function retrieves the assets exported from Postman (test collection, environment, and global variables), injects secrets from the secrets manager and executes the tests using the newman npm package, and, in case of failures, updates metrics in CloudWatch and stores test results in the S3 bucket. An alarm is triggered in case the metrics exceed a threshold (in this case, a count of 1).

I had to do some exploring/testing of an API today and thought that Postman would be the tool for the job.

Let's set up our API route first because we can quickly test it to see if it's working using an API testing tool like Postman. Create an API route for SendGrid by creating this folder structure src/app/api/sendgrid/route.js.

There are several ways to document an API including in an API testing client like Postman, but we will use OpenAPI spec to document. OpenAPI is an evolution of Swagger, which is a popular open source tool for all things API. Swagger comes with a user interface to display, interact and test our API documentation.