Free ngrok alternative for async web dev - the Hookdeck CLI

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   The rest of this post will show how the Hookdeck CLI can be used to receive asynchronous events (a.k.a. webhooks) from third-party services such as Stripe, Shopify, or Twilio. If you're looking for a tool that solves the other use cases, take a look at the awesome tunneling repo.

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4. hookdeck-cli

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   Alternative to ngrok for localhost asynchronous web development (e.g. webhooks). No account required.

   

   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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