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curl is not great when testing configuration for various software solutions. there are a few better options than postman like httpie and another one but I forget its name.
ducaale/xh is another much like curl. Closer to postman are Hoppscotch and Insomnia.
ok yeah I think the other one I used was like a fork of insomnia.
Xh is my favorite— a rewrite of httpie with some fixes.
Did you read the full post?
I did and I did not see anything in the article that would take your api and give you an equivalent statement in a variety of languages which I think is why it was nice using the programs but i has been over a year since I did it. It was a fairly high amount of convenience.