My VS Code Setup To Practice TDD When Developing REST APIs

A lot of people I know will repeatedly alternate between writing an endpoint in their IDE and Postman/Swagger to test it. I do not like this workflow because of the constant context switching. I also find that it's easy to forget to test a scenario or to test the wrong scenario. I've found that it's much easier to test the API in the IDE itself.

I personally prefer the Test Driven Development (TDD) approach. I find that it helps me to write better code and to think about the API design before I actually start writing code. I also find that it helps me to write better tests and to think about the different scenarios that I need to test for.

So, how can we do this in VS Code?

I wrote about my VS Code setup to practice TDD when developing REST APIs here.

Hope this will encourage you to practice TDD when developing REST APIs!

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out.