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How to Receive and Handle Stripe Webhooks
How to Receive and Handle Stripe Webhooks
As we saw earlier in the description of the Stripe workflows, Stripe relies heavily on webhooks. Webhooks are a common concept in modern applications, so we’ll start with a quick refresher on what they are. Then, we’ll set up Stripe webhooks and update our app to ensure it can properly receive and handle those webhook events.
Payments
Learning Highlights
- 1:12
Understanding how Stripe webhooks enable real-time event listening by sending data to a URL whenever specific events occur, such as customer creation or successful payments.
- 3:00
Learn to configure webhook events in Stripe's test environment, selecting critical events like checkout.session.completed, customer.created, customer.subscription.created, and invoice.payment_succeeded.
- 8:00
How to secure webhook endpoints by implementing webhook signing secret verification to validate that incoming payloads are legitimate and prevent unauthorized data from compromising your system.
- 12:00
Discover why Ngrok creates a tunnel between local and cloud environments, enabling developers to test webhook implementations locally before production deployment by making localhost accessible via a public URL.
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How to Receive and Handle Stripe Webhooks
Learn how webhooks work, then set up Stripe webhooks to handle real-time subscription events.
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