apidays LIVE Singapore - Connected Stack The trouble with Webhooks Phil Nash, Developer Advocate at Twilio

1. THE TROUBLE WITH
WEBHOOKS
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2. Phil Nash
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3. WHAT IS A
WEBHOOK?
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4. What is a webhook?
“User defined HTTP callbacks”
POST /webhook HTTP/1.1
Host: www.yourwebsite.com
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5. Who uses webhooks?
Twilio, SendGrid, Stripe,
GitHub, DropBox, Auth0,
Slack...
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6. WHAT'S THE
TROUBLE?
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7. HOW DO I TEST THIS?
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8. How do I test this?
Online: RequestBin, PostBin
Tunnels: ngrok, localtunnel
Deploy and test in production 😈
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9. WHAT CAN WE DO
ABOUT IT?
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10. DOCUMENTATION
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11. TWIMLETS
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13. TWIMLBINS
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15. SERVERLESS
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17. STUDIO
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19. TWILIOQUEST
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23. SERVERLESS
TOOLKIT
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24. Serverless Toolkit
twilio-run
create-twilio-function
function-templates
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25. TWILIO CLI
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26. Twilio CLI
$ npm install -g twilio-cli # brew install twilio-cli
$ twilio api:core:messages:list
$ twilio debugger:logs:list
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27. TWILIO CLI
PLUGINS!
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28. Twilio CLI
$ twilio serverless:init new-project
$ twilio serverless:start --ngrok=""
$ twilio serverless:deploy
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29. THE TROUBLE WITH
WEBHOOKS
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30. Attack on multiple fronts
Simple applications: Twimlets & TwiMLBins
Education: TwilioQuest
Non developers: Studio
Dev environment: Serverless Toolkit & Twilio CLI
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31. Interested?
Play TwilioQuest: twilio.com/quest
Open source projects: github.com/twilio-labs
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32. Thanks!
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