Understanding and testing Core API endpoints

We have to identify and understand the use of API endpoints, arguments, and return data formats to build features with API functions. Testing API requests is the best way to understand the process. We can use an existing tool to simplify the API request testing process. There are many such tools and we are going to use the Postman extension of Google Chrome browser.

Postman is a tool that simplifies the process of managing APIs by offering features such as testing API requests, building API documentation, and monitoring API usage. This tool also provides many additional API-related features in both free and PRO versions. The free extension is more than enough to work with basic API testing for ...

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