hook-events

This is the official client library to connect to a https://hook.events hook. hook.events is yet another webhook testing took that provides yous a disposable webhook address.

Getting Started

Below, we're using this library and a webhook we created on https://hook.events to listen for call to your webhook and output them to the console

Initialize a new npm project with a default package json by running

npm init -y

Install the hook-events npm package

The hook-event npm package contains a client that lets you easily connect to your hook and register callbacks to be invoked when calls to your hook are made.

npm i hook-events

Create a hook.events client

We'll create a simple Node.js script to create a hook events client that will handle the connection to hook.events for us.

Create a empty index.js file and add the following code to it

const receiver = require('hook-events/receiver');

const client = new receiver.client('https://hookId.hook.events');

You'll need to replace the https://hookId.hook.events hook url with your actual hook you created in the Prerequisites section.

Register a event callback

We want to run some code whenever a call is made to our hook. In this sample app, we'll simply log the requests to the console output

Add the following to index.js

const subscripton = client.onEvent(e => {
   console.log(`Received a ${e.method} call to ${e.path}`);
});

If we run this in Node.js by calling

node index.js 

then open our hook url in a browser, we should see the following output in our console

Received a GET call to /
Received a GET call to /favicon.ico

Cleanup

Whenever we're done using our connection to hook.events, we should remove the listener. We can do this in code by calling dispose on our subscription.

To conserve resources, the hook-event client will only connect and maintain a connection when there's at least one active listener.

Example

const subscripton = client.onEvent(e => {
   // ... code to run on calls to our hook
});

// .... the rest of our app

//Stop listening to our hook
subscription.dispose();