Justin Woo
Developer Evangelist, PayPal
PayPal Developer Advocate, loves learning, teaching, inventing, building and meeting new people.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 3rd and 4th 2015Session
Hooked on Webhooks
A webhook is a “user-defined http call back”. Many APIs have and use them as a way of notifying you when something has happened. Come to my talk to find out how to work with them using Node.js.
About This Session
A webhook is a “user-defined http call back”.
Many APIs have and use them as a way of notifying you when something has happened in your system.
However they can sometimes be confusing to use and test and deploy. Come to my talk to find out how to work with them using Node.js. I’ll also show you some other tools you can use to work with them.
At the end of this talk you should be able to tell:
- What is a Webhook.
- How to use and test Webhooks.
- How to build your own webhooks.
- I’ll show you a few APIs – github, twilio, paypal that expose webhooks
- I’ll show you how to build a simple application that uses webhooks
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