Postman is a great tool to showcase how APIs work. The collections for commercetools are very sophisticated and provide all the details you need in order to demo their capabilities.

However, sometimes it is just great to know alternative ways to demo certain aspects. Especially from a developer perspective, Visual Studio Code seems to be the de-facto standard nowadays. VS Code has a huge ecosystem of extensions available … and one of these is REST Client created by Huachao Mao. Here is the link to the GitHub project also with documentation and additional examples. REST Client allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly.

As a side project, I recently worked on creating a mobile app for Android (and iOS to be completed). To be honest, the development effort was quite straight forward. The development stack focused on Xamarin, because I do not know a thing about creating a native app for Android nor iOS. But, I do know C# … so, for me this was a natural choice :-)

My knowledge in the area of Xamarin was quite limited and I did not create an app for Android or iOS before. However, the path from idea to prototyping was really smooth. There are a ton of kickstart packages out there and the documentation is amazing. You’ll find tons of articles, knowledge base and other posts that are really helpful.