Insomnia files

In this course, we use Insomnia to test our REST API as we develop it. It's a great tool, and relatively straightforward to use!

To make it easier for you, we've prepared a few files that you can import directly into your Insomnia app. Each section has its own file, and there's also a file which contains all sections).

Per-section files (collections)

Every section where we change the API endpoints, we've prepared an Insomnia file you can import. To import the file, just go to your Insomnia project, click on the "Create" button, and select "Import from file".

Then, find the appropriate file and you should see the request collection being created. Files are in each section folder where API changes were introduced, and they are named Insomnia_sectionX.json.

The Insomnia project should now show your new collection:

Clicking on it should let you access the requests, which may be inside folders.

All-section file (project)

To import all sections at the same time, you can use the all-section file. It's in the docs/docs/ folder of the repository, and it's called Insomnia_all_sections.json.

To import it, follow the same process as before but using this file. It will create multiple request collections.

First, find the Insomnia_all_sections.json file when importing:

This should import the request collections for all sections:

That's it! With this, you can either import sections individually, or all sections together to follow the entire course.

Now let's start with the course content!