Building customer-facing webhooks with Next.js and Knock

Webhooks are a crucial component in the modern SaaS ecosystem, allowing customers to create integrations without you having to build them yourself. As you plan your own architecture, it’s important to consider how you’ll secure your webhooks, make them reliable and fault tolerant, and give developers enough access to debug their connections.

In this video, I walkthrough and example app using Next.js, shadcn/ui, Knock to create a self-service webhooks platforms for developers to create, test, and debug their own webhook connections.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Example app setup
02:14 Environment variables
03:30 Webhook configuration
05:06 Tenant and object collections
07:50 Running the app
08:17 Adding an endpoint
17:37 Testing and troubleshooting
19:26 Message logs
25:21 Conclusion