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SSH tunneling and dealing with webhooks that require a trusted SSL certificate when developing locally with Django

July 15, 2016

I'm currently working on version 2 of our Shopify app where we'll be adding custom Slack slash commands. When adding slash commands to a custom app, Slack requires the receiving server to have a trusted (not self-signed) SSL certificate.

Normally, what we do is simply create a reverse SSH tunnel to our stage server which is publicly accessible to receive webhooks, for example:

ssh root@stage.example.com -R 8000:localhost:80

The above example will basically forward any traffic …

Send Shopify events to Slack with Slacky

May 28, 2016

Around a couple of months ago, a good friend of mine who's also a developer and I were chatting on Slack about app platforms we could build apps for on the side. One platform that came up was Shopify and after doing some research on the Shopify App Store we decided to team up to build our first app. We called our company Highview Apps.

We brainstormed for a bit, trying to come up …

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