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Phil Leggetter

Nice comparison. One more option to consider, especially if you're working with webhooks, is the Hookdeck CLI. Like ngrok, it forwards HTTPS traffic to your localhost and lets you inspect and replay events. The difference is that it’s designed specifically for webhook development.

With the Hookdeck Console, you get a clean UI to view events, inspect payloads, and manually retry them. This is especially useful when testing integrations like Stripe, GitHub, or Twilio.

If you later need production-level features like automatic retries, filtering, or delivery to queues, that’s where the Hookdeck Event Gateway comes in.