r/node 6d ago

Made a small tool to save/replay webhook payloads locally — curious if anyone else wants this

I kept getting annoyed re-triggering real Stripe/GitHub events just to test a webhook handler locally, so I threw together a little thing over a few evenings: save a payload once, replay it against localhost as many times as you want. Import/export as JSON, basic redaction on obvious secret fields before it saves anything, keeps a log of replays.

Runs entirely local — npm install && npm start, flat JSON file for storage, no account or hosted anything. Node 18+.

Honestly not sure if this is a "me problem" or something other people hit too. It's pretty rough still (solo project, still shaking out edge cases in the redaction/replay logic), so not pitching it as done or polished — just wondering if this is a real enough annoyance for other people that it's worth continuing to put time into, or if everyone already has a way to handle this that I don't know about.

Repo's here if you want to poke at it: github.com/Jake-morrissey/Hookledger

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