For some reason I got the urge to have a look at webhooks when using GitHub. Since it is a feature that is used extensively by build servers and other applications to do things when code is pushed to GitHub etc, I thought it might be cool to have a look at how it works under the hood. And maybe build some interesting integration in the future…
The basic idea behind it is that you tell GitHub that you want to get notified when things happen in your GitHub repo, and GitHub makes sure to do so. It does so using a regular HTTP call to an endpoint of your choice.
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