Your REST API Needs Webhooks

🧑🏻‍💻 Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code ARJANCODES and get 60% off an annual plan: [https://incogni.com/arjancodes](https://incogni.com/arjancodes%E2%80%8B) In this video, I show how to add webhooks to a FastAPI application, and then take it one step further with a cleaner, event-driven design. Instead of tightly coupling your endpoints to integrations, you’ll learn how to decouple side effects using events, making your API more flexible and easier to extend. 🔥 GitHub Repository: https://git.arjan.codes/2026/webhook. 🎓 ArjanCodes Courses: https://www.arjancodes.com/courses. 💬 Join my Discord server: https://discord.arjan.codes. ⌨️ Keyboard I’m using: https://amzn.to/49YM97v. 🔖 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:27 Simple Webhooks 6:01 Incogni Sponsored Segment 7:38 Trigger Webhooks From the Endpoint 8:21 The Design Problem 9:06 Introduce Events 11:25 Refactor the Endpoint 13:35 Move Webhooks to Listeners 15:32 Why This Is Better 16:17 Production Reality Check 17:18 Final Thoughts #arjancodes #softwaredesign #python