Guaranteeing webhook delivery in Strapi using QStash

The text provides a guide on using QStash to automatically retry Strapi webhooks, enhancing the reliability of Strapi's open-source content management system by addressing its lack of a retry mechanism for failed webhooks. It explains how Strapi's webhooks function, which send HTTP requests when data changes, but highlights their limitation of not having a built-in retry feature in case of failures. QStash, a serverless message queue, resolves this by ensuring successful delivery through retries and allowing serverless functions to process messages. The guide outlines setting up a mock API with requestcatcher.com, creating a Strapi project, and configuring QStash to handle webhook retries. It describes updating Strapi's webhook settings to use QStash, ensuring authenticated requests via a QSTASH_TOKEN, and mentions the retry mechanism employed by QStash in case of delivery failures. The text emphasizes the importance of verifying the authenticity of incoming webhooks for production environments and suggests using Upstash's TypeScript SDK for enhanced security.