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What is a webhook? - ASP.NET Core Tutorial
From the course: ASP.NET Core: Communication Management
What is a webhook?
- [Instructor] A webhook is an important concept in programming. But, what is a webhook? A webhook can also be named or called a notification. Now, these notifications are used within apps where they need to communicate with other apps outside the APIs. Think of webooks as alarm clocks. So, let us say you have a meeting or a call at 6:00 p.m. Instead of continuously checking the clock it it's meeting time, you can set an alarm for 6:00 p.m. And you can just work on other stuff. And let the alarm clock alert you once it's time. So, in this case, you are not actively checking for a response. Which is, is it 6:00 p.m. or not. Instead, the alarm clock will send a notification. The same is true for webhooks. So, let us say you want to know if a user opened an email. If they reported a email spam. In that case, you set a webhook for these events in SendGrid and then you just wait for SendGrid to notify you. So, to…
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