Name: smee
Owner: Probot
Description: Receives payloads then sends them to your local server
Created: 2017-10-25 14:53:06.0
Updated: 2018-01-09 14:24:20.0
Pushed: 2018-01-18 16:35:07.0
Homepage: https://smee.io
Size: 453
Language: JavaScript
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smee is a web application that receives payloads then sends them, via the EventSource API, to other clients.
Go to https://smee.io/new, which will redirect you to a randomly generated channel. You must be using a browser that supports Server-Sent Events.
Use that new page's URL as your App's Webhook URL
Use the client to proxy events and send them to a path on your local device, or set it as your Probot App's WEBHOOK_PROXY_URL environment variable.
Watch events come in to the web UI
Profit!
One of the most cumbersome parts of building a GitHub App with Probot is dealing with webhook deliveries. When working locally, for your app to receive webhooks you'd need to expose it to the internet - that's where we've used localtunnel. However, it's not very reliable or fast and is more than many apps need to simply collect webhook events.
This also gave us a way to build our own UI around the needs of a Probot App. Together with the GitHub App UI, we now have a better way to get the full picture of what goes on in an app in development.
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