hookdeck-cli VS svix-webhooks

As per the title of this post, the Hookdeck CLI is built to support asynchronous web development. By this, I mean requests, such as webhooks from an API service, are received and proxied onto the application running locally. However, the response from the local service is not passed back to the API service that made the request.

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Shameless plug: if you like the development experience of webhooks at Stripe we offer the same experience on our platform at https://hookdeck.com/ which you can drop in to help you add reliability and a better developer experience to receiving webhooks from anywhere.

This is a fantastic resource! Thank you to the folks at ngrok for putting this together! As this site makes clear: webhooks are harder than they appear. Even just consuming webhooks it's easy to get bogged down dealing with issues around rate limits or recovering from bugs that cause missed events! Missed events being particularly painful with platforms that don't offer replay / retry.

Disclaimer: I work at https://hookdeck.com/ & I shamelessly plug our tool for giving you an awesome developer experience working with webhooks and helping deal with some of the concerns brought up on webhooks.fyi.

And if you are interested in webhooks at large a couple more resources worth checking out is the awesome-webhooks[1] list and the r/webhooks[2] subreddit (I just got ownership of the sub and started dusting it off this week after being neglected for the past few years! Please, come join!)

[1] https://github.com/realadeel/awesome-webhooks

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/webhooks/

and then went throught the codebase: https://github.com/hookdeck/hookdeck-cli

That's exactly why we built Svix[1]. Building webhooks services, even with amazing tools like FastAPI, Celery and Redis is still a big pain. So we just built a product to solve it.

Hatchet looks cool nonetheless. Queues are a pain for many other use-cases too.

1: https://www.svix.com

Obviously Deno have vested interest it (and so do I as the founder of Svix[1]), but my take is that webhooks are great, though there are alternatives that could be better or complementary depending on the situation.

At Svix we also support running JS instead of sending webhooks (using Deno!), and it is very useful, but there are many limitations with this approach, and in general oftentimes people just want the data passed to their systems and deal with it there. Not write a bit of JS to do something ad-hoc.

So in short, like always with software engineering: "it depends" and there are tradeoffs to each approach.

1: https://www.svix.com

Svix - Webhooks as a Service. Send up to 50,000 messages/month for free.

We opted for a more manual approach, we have a ctx!() macro[1] we use for wrapping errors we want to enrich thay we use like this[2]: ctx!(some_fallible_fund(foo))?

I wodner if anyone is doing anything better? The nice thing is that we have relevant fields in our error type, so we get a full backtrace out if it.

1: https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/blob/main/server/svix-...

2: https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/blob/main/server/svix-...

This is what we do at Svix: https://docs.svix.com/receiving/source-ips

I've seen other companies (e.g. Stripe) also offer it via JSON, but I personally think it's not that important to provide it in a machine readable format if you don't plan on changing it; which you shouldn't as it'll break integrations. You should only add new IPs that can only be allocated to new customers.

P.S, if you'd like to start sending webhooks, you should probably check out Svix: https://www.svix.com

If I understand you, you just want some queue system, like kafka.But if you want a whole app who handle all your webhooks usage you can see : https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/

Might want to look into Svix and HostedHooks

Repository on Github: https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks