Dealing with webhooks is a fundamental part of building a modern, event-driven application. Whether you're processing payments with Stripe, tracking email delivery with SendGrid, or getting updates from a Git repository, webhooks are the glue that connects services. But let's be honest: while powerful, they can be a real pain to manage.
Each new service means a new endpoint to build, a new security signature to verify, and a new payload structure to parse. Your codebase slowly accumulates boilerplate logic for handling Stripe's Stripe-Signature header, SendGrid's timestamp/token verification, and whatever unique method the next service uses. This is undifferentiated heavy lifting that slows down development and increases your application's surface area for bugs and security vulnerabilities.
What if you could offload all of that complexity? Enter webhooks.do—a service designed for unified webhook management. Let's see how you can consolidate both Stripe and SendGrid webhooks in just a few minutes using a single, elegant API.
Without a management service, here's what your development process looks like:
You now have two separate endpoints, two security implementations, and two sets of parsing logic to maintain. When you add a third service, like GitHub, you repeat the entire process again. This doesn't scale.
webhooks.do acts as a secure, unified gateway for all your inbound webhooks. Instead of pointing Stripe and SendGrid directly at your application, you point them at webhooks.do. Our service handles the tedious part—authentication, signature verification, and initial parsing—and then forwards a clean, trusted payload to your application.
You only have to manage one integration pattern, which drastically simplifies your code and enhances your security posture.
Prerequisites: You'll need a webhooks.do account and your API key.
First, we'll tell webhooks.do to create a dedicated endpoint to listen for events from Stripe. The source: 'stripe' parameter is key here; it tells our platform to automatically apply Stripe's specific signature verification logic to every incoming request.
import { Do } from '@do-sdk/core';
const client = new Do(process.env.DO_API_KEY);
// Create a new endpoint to receive webhooks from Stripe
const webhookEndpoint = await client.webhooks.create({
source: 'stripe',
targetUrl: 'https://api.myapp.com/handle-payment',
events: ['charge.succeeded', 'customer.created'],
secret: 'whsec_...', // Your Stripe webhook signing secret
});
console.log(webhookEndpoint.url);
//> https://a7b1c3.webhooks.do
That's it! webhooks.do instantly provisions a unique URL (https://a7b1c3.webhooks.do).
Your next action: Copy this URL and paste it into your Stripe dashboard as the destination for your webhook. webhooks.do will now securely receive, verify, and forward only the charge.succeeded and customer.created events to your application's targetUrl.
Now, let's do the same for SendGrid. Notice how similar the code is. This is the power of a unified API. We just change the source, targetUrl, and the list of events we care about.
// Create a new endpoint for SendGrid events
const sendgridEndpoint = await client.webhooks.create({
source: 'sendgrid',
targetUrl: 'https://api.myapp.com/handle-email-event',
events: ['delivered', 'open', 'click'],
});
console.log(sendgridEndpoint.url);
//> https://d4e5f6.webhooks.do
Your next action: Copy this new URL (https://d4e5f6.webhooks.do) and paste it into your SendGrid Mail Settings as the a destination for your Event Webhook. webhooks.do will handle authenticating the events before they ever reach your server.
Your application code is now beautifully simple. The endpoints at https://api.myapp.com/handle-payment and https://api.myapp.com/handle-email-event no longer need any vendor-specific verification logic. They can implicitly trust that any request they receive has already been authenticated. You can focus purely on your business logic.
This approach offers several key advantages:
Q: What is webhooks.do?
A: webhooks.do is a service on the .do platform that provides a unified API to receive, manage, and route webhooks from multiple third-party services. It acts as a single, reliable entry point, abstracting the complexity of handling numerous individual integrations.
Q: How does using a webhook management service improve security?
A: By acting as a single, secure gateway, webhooks.do verifies signatures, standardizes authentication, and can filter requests before they reach your infrastructure. This centralizes security and reduces the attack surface on your core application.
Q: Can I filter which events get forwarded to my application?
A: Yes. Our platform allows you to specify precisely which events you want to subscribe to for each webhook source. This ensures your application only processes relevant data, simplifying your code and saving compute resources.
Q: Can I manage webhooks for different services and environments?
A: Absolutely. You can create multiple webhook endpoints, each configured for different services or environments (like development, staging, and production). Each endpoint functions independently, allowing for clean separation of concerns.
Stop juggling countless webhook integrations. By consolidating your webhooks with a single, elegant API, you can accelerate development, secure your application, and build more reliable systems.
Ready to reclaim your development time? Sign up for webhooks.do and integrate your first webhook in minutes.