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

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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. WHAT'S THE DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE? @philnash
8. How do I test this? Online: RequestBin, PostBin Tunnels: ngrok, localtunnel, serveo, tunnelto Deploy and test in production @philnash
9. WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? @philnash
10. DOCUMENTATION SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING @philnash
11. HOST CODE FOR DEVELOPERS @philnash
12. TWIMLETS @philnash
13. @philnash
14. TWIMLBINS @philnash
15. @philnash
16. SERVERLESS @philnash
17. @philnash
18. STUDIO @philnash
19. @philnash
20. INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES @philnash
21. TWILIOQUEST @philnash
22. @philnash
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24. @philnash
25. DEMO @philnash
26. TOOLING @philnash
27. SERVERLESS TOOLKIT @philnash
28. Serverless Toolkit twilio-run create-twilio-function function-templates @philnash
29. TWILIO CLI @philnash
30. Twilio CLI $ npm install -g twilio-cli # brew install twilio-cli $ twilio api:core:messages:list $ twilio debugger:logs:list @philnash
31. Twilio CLI $ twilio phone-numbers:update TWILIO_NUMBER --voice-url https://localhost:3000/calls @philnash
32. TWILIO CLI PLUGINS! @philnash
33. Twilio CLI $ twilio serverless:init new-project $ twilio serverless:start --ngrok="" $ twilio serverless:deploy @philnash
34. DEMO @philnash
35. THE TROUBLE WITH WEBHOOKS @philnash
36. Attack on multiple fronts Simple applications: Twimlets & TwiMLBins Education: TwilioQuest Non developers: Studio Dev environment: Serverless Toolkit & Twilio CLI @philnash
37. Interested? Play TwilioQuest: twilio.com/quest Open source projects: github.com/twilio-labs @philnash
38. Thanks! @philnash https://philna.sh philnash@twilio.com