Every modern SaaS needs to react to events: a user signs up, a payment succeeds, a trial expires. Webhooks are the glue that connects these events to your business logic—but building reliable webhook infrastructure means managing servers, queues, retries, and databases.

Email automation platforms promise to handle this, but they come with baggage: vendor lock-in, limited webhook integrations, and opaque pricing that scales against you.

What if your webhook endpoints could directly power your email automation?

You've built a powerful automation: Stripe payment → Zapier → Slack notification + Google Sheet update + email confirmation. It works beautifully.

But there's a problem: anyone who knows your Zapier webhook URL can trigger your automation with fake data.

The same is true for Make (Integromat), n8n, and IFTTT. These platforms prioritize ease-of-use, but they don't verify that incoming webhooks are actually from Stripe, GitHub, or whoever you think is sending them.

The solution? Use Codehooks as a verified webhook gateway that sits between the webhook sender and your automation platform.

Most AI projects don't need a fleet of orchestration tools to run a few prompt chains. The real work is state management, retries, scheduling, and simple persistence—the operational glue between LLM API calls.

This post shows you how to build a production-ready text summarization workflow using Codehooks.io, the Workflow API, and OpenAI. You'll learn:

• OpenAI API integration patterns: Error handling, retries, rate limiting, and cost optimization
• Workflow state management: Building reliable multi-step processes with caching and persistence
• Webhook triggers: Event-driven workflows that respond to GitHub issues (and other external services)
• Programmatic access: How to trigger and manage workflows via REST API, CLI, and webhooks

By the end, you'll have a working summarizer that caches results, stores them in a NoSQL database, and can be triggered via REST API or GitHub webhooks—all deployed with a single command.

Here's the workflow we'll build:

You've built an amazing application. Users love it. Now they're asking: "Can you send webhooks when events happen?"

Maybe it's:

• An e-commerce platform where customers want order notifications and webhook delivery
• A SaaS tool where users need real-time webhook alerts
• An IoT system where devices trigger external workflows via webhooks
• A business application where events need webhook integration with other systems

The problem? Building a production-ready webhook delivery system from scratch takes weeks. Setting up webhook infrastructure, managing webhook queues, and handling webhook retries is complex.

The solution? Use this Codehooks.io webhook template and have webhook delivery running in 5 minutes.

An API is an interface that lets software communicate by defining how to make requests and receive responses. A REST API is a specific kind of API that follows REST principles over HTTP—using methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to work with resources. All REST APIs are APIs, but not all APIs are REST.

Confused? Don't worry. In this post, you'll learn everything about the API and REST API domain—from core concepts and key differences to how REST+JSON became the web's standard. We'll explore why REST APIs dominate today's development landscape, compare different backend service models, and finally show you how to build your own APIs in practice using Codehooks.io.

Ever notice how some days you're a caffeinated code ninja ready to refactor an entire codebase, while other days you can barely muster the energy to fix a typo? Welcome to the wonderfully human world of vibe coding – and the tools that get it.

At Codehooks, our mission is to simplify the development of automations, integrations, and backend APIs. As your app logic grows more complex — onboarding flows, async jobs, conditional steps — it becomes clear: You need a better way to organize and execute business logic.

ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and other AI tools using Large Language Models (LLMs) can quickly generate a lot of code, but quite often the process is not straightforward and requires many iterations and a skilled developer to get the best results.

In this article we will show how a well-structured prompt can improve the AI-supported development effort.

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and webhooks are crucial for connecting different systems, enhancing software capabilities, and creating seamless user experiences. Whether you're pulling data from external services or receiving real-time events via webhooks, API integration is at the heart of modern application development. This guide will provide examples to walk you through understanding the meaning of API integration, implementing, and overcoming challenges in API integration, making the process easier and more efficient.

Choosing between SQL and NoSQL databases is a crucial decision that can significantly impact your project's success. This guide provides an in-depth comparison of SQL vs NoSQL, helping you understand their differences and choose the right database type for your needs.

In modern app development, having a reliable backend is essential. Codehooks.io offers a powerful NoSQL datastore, JSON schema validation, and a secure REST API to keep your data consistent and your app scalable.

In this guide, we'll explore creating a dynamic web application with Alpine.js. We'll set up a frontend using Alpine.js, a minimalistic JavaScript/HTML framework, and integrate it with a comprehensive REST API database backend. For rapid design, we'll use DaisyUI and Tailwind CSS. This project offers a hands-on way to see these technologies in action.

In this blog post, we'll show how to develop and deploy a full-stack React Todo App with user authentication and secure database REST APIs.

In this blog post, we'll show you how to set up and use a devcontainer for Codehooks development. Devcontainers, a feature of Visual Studio Code, allow you to create a consistent development environment that can be shared across your team, streamlining your workflow and reducing setup time. Developers on OS X, Windows and Linux will now get the same environment with everything set up correctly from the start.

Codehooks is a powerful Backend-as-a-Service platform that provides Express-like endpoints, a NoSQL document database, a key-value store, a worker queue system, and a CRON-like job scheduling system, all managed through a simple CLI. To set up a devcontainer for Codehooks, follow the steps outlined in this article.

ChatGPT and other advanced AI language models have become an integral part of the modern development workflow. From GPT-4 to Claude and other competitors, these AI assistants have transformed how we approach coding and content creation. And we understand why! These AI models have proven themselves invaluable for producing all kinds of text and code, helping developers work more efficiently and creatively than ever before.

While modern AI models are now well-versed in a wide range of technologies and frameworks, we've found that providing concrete examples still leads to the best results. This approach helps the AI understand exactly how we want to use codehooks.io's specific features and conventions, ensuring the generated code follows our best practices.

What is JAMstack about? The JAMstack architecture is gaining popularity among frontend developers for its ability to provide a modern, fast, and secure web development experience.

In order to achieve better performance, developers have had to look at different ways and tools that together could increase speed and at the same time maintain a high level of security. Traditional and dynamic CMS-based websites have the disadvantage that data must be retrieved from a database or similar in order to deliver content on the websites. Using so-called reverse proxies and caches (i.e., "fast storage") such as Varnish and nginx, was one of the few options to increase performance. That is, until the JAMstack architecture (and frameworks) arrived.

Create, read, update, and delete operations, often popularly known as CRUD — are essential in any application interacting with a database. In the schemaless and document oriented NoSQL world, it's important to control both query and data manipulation from your application. This blog post shows you how easy it is to create a full REST API with CRUD operations and validation for your application using codehooks.io.

Most web applications and mobile apps need a way for users to authenticate themselves so that the backend APIs and database can access data in the context of the user. One of the leading service providers within authentication services is Okta Auth0. They provide a very powerful platform and a ton of features for creating optimal user login experiences.

In this blogpost, we'll show how you can easily authenticate codehooks.io serverless API routes using only a few lines of code together with the public signing key/JWKS endpoint method of validating JWT tokens. Don't know what that is? Don't worry. Read on 👉. We have used a React single-page example from Auth0 here, but it should work just fine with their other examples as well (Angular, JavaScript, Vue).

API's, Microservices and JavaScript are the digital glue of the modern Internet.

This blog post shows how you can build a fast serverless API for a large data set. We'll use a 144MB file with 500K famous quotes to create an efficient NoSQL datastore using code hooks. We'll build and deploy a public serverless API to serve random quotes from the NoSQL database to clients.

Email remains the top communication tool for businesses. Either, if you need to create simple direct emails messages, or schedule templated bulk messages to customers - we all need flexible tools to communicate effectively with our customers.

This blog post shows how you can create a serverless background application for sending bulk HTML emails using the popular Mailgun SaaS.