Discussion on "How to Run Stripe Webhooks Locally"

Kristopher Guzman · 2020-12-04T10:12:57.191Z

Today's article is going to be a bit niche, but nevertheless it's an issue I have run into on multiple projects and have finally reached a solid solution. The Problem Stripe (and other payment solutions like PayPal) allows your application to listen ...

Adam Mortka

js dev

Dec 6, 2020

well, actually "[...] since Stripe can only send events to a real server, not localhost." is not entirely true. Using dedicated Stripe CLI you can easily listen for any stripe events and forward them to any (including localhost) address.

it's simple as a single line command:

stripe listen --forward-to localhost

Kristopher Guzman

A Half-Ass JavaScript Developer

Dec 6, 2020

I've used this in the past, I vaguely recall events only being triggerable using stripe trigger INSERT_EVENT_HERE. I could be wrong though. Do events fire for API calls outside the CLI as well?

Kristopher Guzman

A Half-Ass JavaScript Developer

Dec 6, 2020

Ah yes, just confirmed. This is definitely the preferred way to go then. Thanks for pointing this out!

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