The Postman Flows Cookbook is a collection of practical recipes for developing flows. Each recipe describes the best practice for a specific real-world example. The cookbook provides working examples of common tasks and shows prescribed methods for efficiently building your own flows. The focus of each recipe is to explain common idioms or design patterns that help you understand more advanced flow structures or design patterns involved in creating a flow.

Along with an explanation of the steps involved to write the flow, each recipe in the cookbook provides an embedded example you can copy into your own workspace and use. These examples may work as-is for your current task, or they may be a starting point you can expand and refine to tackle your own specific use case.

The cookbook assumes a basic knowledge of Postman Flows. If you’re using flows for the first time, it might be helpful to start with the Build your first flow tutorial first. The cookbook is also not designed to be a quick reference to the functionality of each block. If you’re looking for an item-by-item inventory of the fields in a block or tables of possible values, check out the block reference section.