Company
Date Published
Author
Daniel Oluojomu
Word count
890
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Convoy v0.6 introduces the capability to receive webhooks from providers like GitHub, Twitter, and Shopify, with special handling for provider-specific requirements such as Twitter's CRC check. The article offers a detailed guide on setting up GitHub webhook events, starting with signing in to the Convoy dashboard and creating an incoming project by securing a Project API Key. It explains creating a Convoy application and endpoint via API commands, detailing how to submit payloads and handle responses. The guide further explores creating a source with GitHub as the provider, establishing subscriptions to link sources, applications, and endpoints, and configuring GitHub to send webhooks for specific events like pushes and pull requests. Convoy facilitates the validation and distribution of events to subscribed endpoints, emphasizing reliability and replayability, and encourages feedback through its community channels.