how to point webhook to front end-CodePudding

I have a webhook being fired when an event occurs. It successfully hits my backend server.

My frontend is localhost:3000

My backend is localhost:5000

My backend route looks like so

   app.get('/webhook', (req, res) => {
    console.log("webhoook fired")});
        res.json({message: "webHook response"}) // How can I point this to front end? 
}

My Question is, My webhook is being fired by a 3rd party that sends a get request to my backend. How I am I able to send a response to my front end within this function? does the res just go back to the 3rd party?

CodePudding user response：

does the res just go back to the 3rd party?

Yes, because they made a request to your server and if required, you can respond to them.

How am I able to send a response to my front end within this function?

If you want to update data in the front-end once your server received data from 3rd-party webhooks, in most cases, you need to use WebSockets to accomplish that. In short, WebSockets allow real-time communication between server and client by keeping a continuous connection between each other. You can look at native WebSockets first, and also check out available libraries such as socket.io or ws :)