Testing Webhooks Was a Pain – So I Fixed the Glitch
Popularized by GitHub, Webhooks are the modern way for apps to receive notifications / events from other servers. But testing Webhooks has always been pretty painful, especially if you want to automate those tests. So I created a little app to make it easier. Before we get into that lets cover the basics…
A Webhook is a way for you to define a URL that is called by another service when a particular event occurs. For example, you can configure your repo on GitHub to have a Webhook that calls http://foo.com/pr when a new Pull Request is created. The old alternative to this is polling (bad).