I wouldn’t say it’s similar to Ngrok because their operating principles are different. Ngrok is a tunneling application that exposes your local development environment to the internet. In Webhook Simulator, however, it works the other way around; your local development environment isn’t exposed to the outside world, which keeps things more secure.
Are you planning on adding a GUI? The tool currently seems to be command-line based, which is fine, but a nice GUI would be nicer to work with and make it easier and quicker to pick up and use.
One of our goals for the first quarter of 2025 is to release our MacOS application, which will be followed by Windows and Linux desktop applications. So yes, we’re working on a GUI, but these efforts are still in the early stages and not yet fully developed.
If you can provide an example use case, I can let you know whether it’s possible. However, generally speaking, we developed this software to allow developers to easily create webhook endpoints in their local development environments. To be honest, I can’t think of a use case related to a coding assignment for this.
A: Yes, there are several different features available.
• With tools like webhook.site, you can view payloads when you receive real webhook events. However, with Webhook Simulator, you can trigger webhook events without waiting for a real event, using a payload that is identical to the real one but with dummy data. • You can also forward these events to your local development environment with...
Q: Similar to ngrok?
I'm trying to create a frame of reference in my head. Is this similar to ngrok?
WebhookSimulator
Oct 25, 2024A: Hello Gareth,
I wouldn’t say it’s similar to Ngrok because their operating principles are different. Ngrok is a tunneling application that exposes your local development environment to the internet. In Webhook Simulator, however, it works the other way around; your local development environment isn’t exposed to the outside world, which keeps things more secure.
Additionally, Webhook Simulator...
Q: GUI?
Are you planning on adding a GUI? The tool currently seems to be command-line based, which is fine, but a nice GUI would be nicer to work with and make it easier and quicker to pick up and use.
WebhookSimulator
Oct 25, 2024A: Hello Gareth,
One of our goals for the first quarter of 2025 is to release our MacOS application, which will be followed by Windows and Linux desktop applications. So yes, we’re working on a GUI, but these efforts are still in the early stages and not yet fully developed.
Q: Can I make a tester for submitted coding assignments of my students for a programming oriented course?
WebhookSimulator
Oct 24, 2024A: Hello,
If you can provide an example use case, I can let you know whether it’s possible. However, generally speaking, we developed this software to allow developers to easily create webhook endpoints in their local development environments. To be honest, I can’t think of a use case related to a coding assignment for this.
I would like to have WebhookSimulator to respond the correct answer when a student press Check my solution.
Unfortunately, I don’t think the Webhook Simulator will be useful in your use case.
Q: Can you do things with Webhook that we can't do with free tools?
https://webhook.site/
WebhookSimulator
Oct 24, 2024A: Yes, there are several different features available.
• With tools like webhook.site, you can view payloads when you receive real webhook events. However, with Webhook Simulator, you can trigger webhook events without waiting for a real event, using a payload that is identical to the real one but with dummy data.
• You can also forward these events to your local development environment with...