The trouble with webhooks - at APIdays Singapore

Webhooks are a core part of the way developers interact with the Twilio API but can be the hardest to work with when learning the platform. Discover the many ways the Twilio team has tried to improve the experience, from documentation, tooling and serverless functions, all the way to building and releasing a video game.

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Links:

TwilioQuest: https://www.twilio.com/quest
Twilio CLI and open source projects: https://github.com/twilio-labs

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1. THE TROUBLE WITH WEBHOOKS @philnash
2. Phil Nash @philnash https://philna.sh philnash@twilio.com
3. WHAT IS A WEBHOOK? @philnash
4. What is a webhook? “User defined HTTP callbacks” POST /webhook HTTP/1.1 Host: www.yourwebsite.com @philnash
5. Who uses webhooks? Twilio, SendGrid, Stripe, GitHub, DropBox, Auth0, Slack... @philnash
6. WHAT'S THE TROUBLE? @philnash
7. HOW DO I TEST THIS? @philnash
8. How do I test this? Online: RequestBin, PostBin Tunnels: ngrok, localtunnel Deploy and test in production @philnash
9. WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? @philnash
10. DOCUMENTATION @philnash
11. TWIMLETS @philnash
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13. TWIMLBINS @philnash
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15. SERVERLESS @philnash
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17. STUDIO @philnash
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19. TWILIOQUEST @philnash
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23. SERVERLESS TOOLKIT @philnash
24. Serverless Toolkit twilio-run create-twilio-function function-templates @philnash
25. TWILIO CLI @philnash
26. Twilio CLI $ npm install -g twilio-cli # brew install twilio-cli $ twilio api:core:messages:list $ twilio debugger:logs:list @philnash
27. TWILIO CLI PLUGINS! @philnash
28. Twilio CLI $ twilio serverless:init new-project $ twilio serverless:start --ngrok="" $ twilio serverless:deploy @philnash
29. THE TROUBLE WITH WEBHOOKS @philnash
30. Attack on multiple fronts Simple applications: Twimlets & TwiMLBins Education: TwilioQuest Non developers: Studio Dev environment: Serverless Toolkit & Twilio CLI @philnash
31. Interested? Play TwilioQuest: twilio.com/quest Open source projects: github.com/twilio-labs @philnash
32. Thanks! @philnash https://philna.sh philnash@twilio.com