How to Setup Postman with Laravel Project

Postman is an API platform for developers to design, build, test and iterate their APIs. Often, postman has been an essential API tool for developers.

As a Laravel developer, it is advisable you know how to work in postman while building your projects.

In this content, I'm going to be listing simple clear steps on how to can communicate with your laravel project through postman.

Step 1
Own a Postman Free Account

Create a free postman account by visiting POSTMAN or click on signup for postman.

Step 2
Create a Workspace and Collection

You can choose any preferred name as your workspace name.

Create Collection

After you are done creating a workspace, it is advisable you create a Collection with any preferred name of your choose as indicated below.

Step 3
Download and Install Postman Agent
To download postman desktop agent, click DOWNLOAD, after downloading, don't forget to install it.

Step 4
Working with Laravel

If you've already setup your laravel project, follow the codes blocks to setup and test your connection.

Create a route on route -> api.php

Route::post('test_data', [TestController::class, 'test_data'])->name('api.test_data');

Goto your controller and create a function according to your the name used in api.php route.

 public function test_data(Request $request)
    {
        return $request;
    }

Next thing is to serve your project by running php artisan serve on your terminal, copy the link and lets move to the next step.

Step 5
Testing the Connection

Add a request by clicking the add a request as shown on the image above.

Now, you can now paste the copied link, after we served the project on terminal and click on "send".

If it return and empty array [] for you, it means you got it right.

We can decide to send a extra parameter as request and return the response from you controller.

If you got similar results as mine on the screenshot above, congratulation.