hooky

hooky is an apalis based webhook dispatch service built with Rust and Next.js.
It provides a fast, reliable backend for receiving and dispatching webhooks, and a modern web frontend for managing endpoints and events.

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🚀 Features

• Rust backend – high-performance and reliable webhook handling.
• Nextjs frontend – user-friendly dashboard for managing webhooks and deliveries.
• Webhook dispatching – receive, queue, and deliver events to configured targets.
• Extensible design – easily add custom logic for authentication, retries, and filtering.

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Backend: Rust (axum, tokio, serde, etc.)
• Frontend: Nextjs (React, TypeScript)
• Database: SQLite for storing webhook configurations and delivery logs.
• Message handling: Async dispatch with retries.

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📦 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust (latest stable)
• Node.js (LTS recommended)
• pnpm or npm/yarn

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/apalis-dev/hooky.git
cd hooky

Backend Setup

cd backend
cargo run

This will start the webhook server on http://localhost:8080.

Frontend Setup

cd web
pnpm install
pnpm dev

This will start the Nextjs dev server on http://localhost:3000.

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📖 Usage

1. Register webhook targets in the dashboard.
2. Send events to POST /hooks/:id.
3. Monitor delivery attempts and retry failed requests from the UI.

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📚 Roadmap

• Authentication & API keys
• Delivery retries with backoff
• Event filtering and transformation

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or PR.

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📜 License

MIT