On Macs I would consider the Chrome integration to be a down side as it seems to install itself as a separate application entirely, and thus in my app launcher (which annoys me, especially when I'm signed into Chrome + Canary and then it's showing up twice).
Re:Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac
by dorian-graph on Monday June 08, 2015 @11:35PM
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When you Command+Tab to it it raises the main Chrome window too which is annoying.
The positive side is the capturing of HTTP requests in Chrome.
Re:Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac
by developer1 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:59AM
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To expand on the point "Chrome integration", the most useful aspect of Postman is the "Postman Interceptor". You can clone any real in-browser request (primary page or ajax request) into Postman, ready to be replayed or modified then replayed. The amount of time saved when you're playing with ajax requests rather than a REST API is insane.
Re:Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac
by Zombieball on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @04:35AM
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I switched from Postman to Paw primarily because the JSON pretty print functionality in postman couldn't handle very large JSON responses.
- Native Mac app (it's prettier)
- I like the 3 pane window structure
- A lot of smaller UX things are nicer like duplicating, Postman annoyingly scrolls down, having to explicitly hit save, etc.
- Extensions
- Dynamic values
- Completions
Postman has the following which Paw lacks AFAIK:
- Collection automation and testing
- Chrome integration
- Dark UI theme
If I had use either of the 2 above I would not be able to switch over to Paw.
[1] https://www.getpostman.com/