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The trouble with webhooks - at Apidays Live Hong Kong

Phil Nash
October 08, 2020
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The trouble with webhooks - at Apidays Live Hong Kong

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

Phil Nash

October 08, 2020
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Transcript

  1. THE TROUBLE WITH
    WEBHOOKS
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  2. Phil Nash
    @philnash
    https://philna.sh
    [email protected]

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  3. WHAT IS A
    WEBHOOK?
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  4. What is a webhook?
    “User defined HTTP callbacks”
    POST /webhook HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.yourwebsite.com
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  5. Who uses webhooks?
    Twilio, SendGrid, Stripe,
    GitHub, DropBox, Auth0,
    Slack...
    @philnash

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  6. WHAT'S THE
    TROUBLE?
    @philnash

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  7. WHAT'S THE
    DEVELOPER
    EXPERIENCE?
    @philnash

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  8. How do I test this?
    Online: RequestBin, PostBin
    Tunnels: ngrok, localtunnel, serveo, tunnelto
    Deploy and test in production

    @philnash

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  9. WHAT CAN WE DO
    ABOUT IT?
    @philnash

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  10. DOCUMENTATION
    SHOULD GO
    WITHOUT SAYING
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  11. HOST CODE FOR
    DEVELOPERS
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  12. TWIMLETS
    @philnash

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  13. @philnash

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  14. TWIMLBINS
    @philnash

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  15. @philnash

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  16. SERVERLESS
    @philnash

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  17. @philnash

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  18. STUDIO
    @philnash

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  19. @philnash

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  20. INTERACTIVE
    EXPERIENCES
    @philnash

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  21. TWILIOQUEST
    @philnash

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  22. @philnash

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  23. @philnash

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  24. @philnash

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  25. DEMO
    @philnash

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  26. TOOLING
    @philnash

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  27. SERVERLESS
    TOOLKIT
    @philnash

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  28. Serverless Toolkit
    twilio-run
    create-twilio-function
    function-templates
    @philnash

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  29. TWILIO CLI
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  30. Twilio CLI
    $ npm install -g twilio-cli # brew install twilio-cli
    $ twilio api:core:messages:list
    $ twilio debugger:logs:list
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  31. Twilio CLI
    $ twilio phone-numbers:update TWILIO_NUMBER
    --voice-url https://localhost:3000/calls
    @philnash

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  32. TWILIO CLI
    PLUGINS!
    @philnash

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  33. Twilio CLI
    $ twilio serverless:init new-project
    $ twilio serverless:start --ngrok=""
    $ twilio serverless:deploy
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  34. DEMO
    @philnash

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  35. THE TROUBLE WITH
    WEBHOOKS
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  36. Attack on multiple fronts
    Simple applications: Twimlets & TwiMLBins
    Education: TwilioQuest
    Non developers: Studio
    Dev environment: Serverless Toolkit & Twilio CLI
    @philnash

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  37. Interested?
    Play TwilioQuest: twilio.com/quest
    Open source projects: github.com/twilio-labs
    @philnash

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  38. Thanks!
    @philnash
    https://philna.sh
    [email protected]

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