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Andy Piper

Thanks for this write-up, this will be super-helpful to other developers (also, I love to see folks deploying code to Now!). Looking forward to seeing your CLI tool. Also - did you look at autohook? dev.to/twitterdev/how-to-build-a-c... :-)

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Alex Luong

Hey Andy, I totally missed Autohook. It’s awesome. I aim to write something quite similar, but slightly more versatile in my CLI.

By the way, is Autohook serverless friendly? It seems like it’s designed for a running server, right?

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Daniele

Hi Alex! Thanks for checking out Autohook! So great this is inspiring you to create something similar.

Autohook has a built-in server, but you can disable that and use your own instead. This is useful in situations where you want to serve a webhook via a serverless module, and only use Autohook to handle incoming messages and user subscriptions.

The standalone server test shows an example of this. You can serve a webhook from anywhere, as long as it implements a CRC check (you can use validateWebhook from Autohook without starting a server).