Introduction
Introduction to the facebook webhooks server
About
The facebook webhooks server is the API endpoints that handle the webhooks from Facebook. It is built with
The main app server is in the apps/facebook-webhooks directory. It contains the main implementation and the tests of the facebook webhooks server.
The production API is currently (as of September 2025) deployed on Netlify Functions from the apps/facebook-webhooks-netlify app. This facebook-webhooks-netlify app imports the facebook-webhooks app and serves it as a Netlify Function.
This separation is done to make it easier to deploy the API to other platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc, if needed. Simply create another app that imports the notify-api app and serves it as a function.
Features
- Handle the challenge request from Facebook.
- Handle the Event Notification from Facebook.