ngrok is great. It's been the go-to for many a web developer who wants to be able to expose a locally... Tagged with ngrok, webhooks, cli, eventdriven.

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Ngrok has shifted its focus away from development use cases, prompting the search for alternatives. Hookdeck CLI emerges as a free, efficient solution for receiving asynchronous webhooks from third-party services like Stripe, Shopify, or Twilio. It supports event-driven applications but doesn't cater to the request/response paradigm. The post walks through installing Hookdeck CLI, setting up a Node.js server, and testing webhooks, making it a robust replacement for ngrok in specific development scenarios.

Free ngrok alternative for async web dev - the Hookdeck CLI

Using the Hookdeck CLI as a free alternative to ngrok for webhooks

<a href="https://app.daily.dev/leggetter" data-mention-id="NQY1V1ahCiZLlQ2O6DzeF" data-mention-username="leggetter">@leggetter</a> what are the major updates with the Hookdeck, which can act as differentiator for developers specifically web developers.

Still using ngrok, never had any issues.

I am using hookdeck only for webhooks, Is it possible to use it like a server like we do with ngrok?