Webhooks allow you to receive event notifications from BaseHub. BaseHub will send a POST request to a URL you specify when certain events happen in a BaseHub Repository.
BaseHub processes webhooks with Svix. The Svix integration was easy-peasy to set up, yet another example of great DX.
The only supported webhook right now is repo.commit. This is a useful notification that can help you set up on-demand revalidation for your Next.js Apps, amongst other things. Another common use case is search indexing: imagine you want to set up an Algolia integration, where you get content from BaseHub and index it into Algolia—at commit time is a great time to do so.
On the roadmap: We’re working on automatically indexing your content, thus supporting Search functionality via our API out-of-the-box. Stay tuned!
We’re working on adding more events into the mix, so stay tuned.