Webhooks

Part of the Full Stack Developer Roadmap.

Summary

Receiving real-time notifications from third-party services (Stripe, GitHub) via your own backend endpoint — the reverse of a normal API call, where the external service becomes the caller.

How to Learn This

1Build an endpoint that receives and verifies a webhook from a service like Stripe.
2Learn to verify webhook authenticity using a signature header, not just trusting the payload.
3Test webhook handling locally using a tool like the Stripe CLI or ngrok.

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