How to integrate ngrok with TalkJS to receive webhooks locally

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TalkJS

Webhooks are a way to communicate between two web applications. With the TalkJS Chat API, there are several webhooks that you can take advantage of just by entering your server URL on our dashboard. But for testing it locally, this is not possible, as the TalkJS server cannot access the localhost server running on your machine. There is a very easy way to do this using ngrok. Today’s guide is all about how you can integrate ngrok with TalkJS to receive webhook events locally.

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ngrok

There are three main parts to this how-to. The first part is to set up ngrok. You need to visit their website and click on the button ‘Get started for free’. This will ask you to create an account with some minimal details. Once that is done, you can log in. On Windows, you can easily download a binary that you can install directly. On other platforms, you can follow the instructions present on their documentation to set it up.

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