Advanced Node.js Development

Managing Postman environments

Now, in order to illustrate this I am going to start up my local server by running node server/server.js command, and over inside of Postman we're going to start making a few requests. Now, if you remember, in the last section we made a request to our Heroku application. I click Send on the GET /todos URL and I get the todos array back as expected. The problem is that the actual items saved in the Collections tab, they all use that localhost URL and there's no good way to switch between the two. To fix this issue we're going to create environments, one for our local machine, and one for Heroku. This is going to let us create a variable as the URL and we can change that variable by flicking a switch over in the ...