Postman was founded on a straightforward premise: we wanted to simplify each step of building an API so developers could create better APIs—faster. From the very beginning, we open-sourced the Postman Runtime, Postman Collection Format, and our SDKs to allow developers the flexibility to work with APIs in any environment or workflow.
Postman has always believed in open dialogue with our community; we continuously make improvements and add new features based on feedback from our community of more than 8 million developers.
We are transparent with our roadmaps, we constantly communicate our issues, and we support all major API specifications.
That's the Postman Open Philosophy.
But it's more than just a philosophy. We put our commitment to openness into practice every day. Below, you'll find details on a selection of these real-world efforts and projects.
Postman regularly creates (and constantly improves) open-source projects on GitHub.
SDK to quickly unlock the power of Postman Collections Format using JavaScript.
Convert Postman collections to usable code in more than 20 different programming languages.
The core of Postman that helps to execute Postman API requests, scripts, and tests.
The Postman Learning Center has all of the resources you need to ramp up quickly and extend your skills.
We consistently use best-of-breed technologies including key open source projects.
The Postman platform and websites actively use SailsJS, Gatsby, Electron, Handlebars, and more.
The Postman platform supports the Gatsby and Bootstrap communities.
Postman actively works to contribute back to projects and foster contributions—especially from developers just starting out.
Sails helps us quickly build Node.js apps—especially when it comes to their auto-generated REST APIs.
The Postman Learning Center is built using Gatsby v2, greatly improving our developer experience. Community contributions are welcomed!
Electron helps us build cross-platform applications (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) with ease.
The new Postman Visualizer feature is one place where you can use Handlebars to visualize your API responses.
This open, industry-standard method for representing claims securely between two parties is supported right in Postman and is used by many of our customers.
We use Bootstrap, the world's most popular front-end component library, to help us build our front-end UI faster.
Postman supports the latest OpenAPI specification as well as Swagger 1.0/2.0.
The RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) has become a popular choice for designing APIs.
Postman allows you to author and send GraphQL queries using the request body.
Postman relies on the contributions of the open-source community, and we’ve created a web page where you can view the license information for all third-party dependencies used by Postman.
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Developers contribute code to open source projects in GitHub every day; unfortunately, during this process sometimes security credentials are shared by accident. So Postman has implemented a new token-scanning service in GitHub that will send you a notification if you accidentally commit a Postman API key to a public repository. This gives you a chance to respond quickly before there’s any unauthorized access your data.
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Today there are 8 million developers and over 400K companies using Postman's comprehensive set of built-in tools to support every stage of the API lifecycle. Postman is building the future of API-first software, and we want you to be a part of it.
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We welcome you to be a contributor to one of our 50 public GitHub repositories.
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