Awesome explanation. I think webhooks have a scary vibe at first, but it's really just an arrangement with some application to send a POST request to some URL. Maybe that's your app, or maybe it's a URL that Slack, for example, gives you so it can post a message in your channel.
It's really not a lot different from any similar transaction within your own app. On dev.to, we have it arranged that any time someone creates a comment, they hit the /comments endpoint with a POST request. If a second app wanted to do something with the comment creation process as well, they'd tell us to also send a request their way when we're done.
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Awesome explanation. I think webhooks have a scary vibe at first, but it's really just an arrangement with some application to send a
POSTrequest to some URL. Maybe that's your app, or maybe it's a URL that Slack, for example, gives you so it can post a message in your channel.It's really not a lot different from any similar transaction within your own app. On dev.to, we have it arranged that any time someone creates a comment, they hit the
/commentsendpoint with aPOSTrequest. If a second app wanted to do something with the comment creation process as well, they'd tell us to also send a request their way when we're done.