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In a previous article, we looked at the practice of debugging webhooks. We covered why it is important to debug our webhooks, why webhooks can be difficult to debug, how to know what to debug, and tools that can help make the debugging process easier. In this post, we will put the theory of debugging webhooks into practice by receiving webhooks locally from a Stripe account and debugging them using the Hookdeck CLI.
Next, we need a local server to receive webhooks from Stripe. You can use any local server of your choosing, written in your preferred language, as long as you ensure that it is running on a specific port. For this exercise, we will use a Node.js sample API available on the Hookdeck GitHub repository.
In order to debug webhooks locally, we need to be able to receive webhooks in our local environment. This is not possible out of the box as local running servers are not publicly available on the internet. Therefore, we will use one of the tools mentioned in our debugging guide to achieve this. The Hookdeck CLI will be used because it is built specifically for debugging webhooks, as opposed to the others which have to be configured, and sometimes coupled with other tools, to work with webhooks.