Guides

Deep-dive walkthroughs for webhook testing, security, debugging, and automation.

• Advanced
  CI/CD webhook testing with the HookDeploy API

  Use the HookDeploy REST API in CI/CD pipelines to create endpoints, send test webhooks, verify capture, and clean up — with a GitHub Actions example.

• Beginner
  Local webhook testing — four approaches compared

  Compare ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, HookDeploy forwarding, and VS Code port forwarding for getting webhooks to your local dev server.

• GitHub Intermediate
  Testing GitHub webhooks with HookDeploy

  GitHub Apps vs OAuth Apps, webhook event types, payload verification, and testing delivery with HookDeploy and ngrok.

• Shopify Intermediate
  Testing Shopify webhooks with HookDeploy

  Shopify Admin API webhooks, HMAC verification, mandatory webhooks, rate limits, and GDPR compliance webhooks.

• Stripe Beginner
  Testing Stripe webhooks with HookDeploy

  Complete guide to capturing, inspecting, and debugging Stripe webhook events using HookDeploy, the Stripe CLI, and signature verification.

• Beginner
  Webhook debugging guide

  Systematic approach to debugging webhook issues — delivery logs, signatures, payloads, curl testing, and common HTTP error codes.

• Intermediate
  Webhook retry strategies

  How major providers retry failed webhooks, idempotency keys, handling duplicates, and why capture-before-process helps.

• Intermediate
  Webhook security best practices

  Signature verification for Stripe, GitHub, and Shopify. HMAC-SHA256, replay attacks, IP allowlisting, HTTPS, and secret rotation.