Yeah I keep the forum open most of the time I’m in front of my computer
You didn’t already? (An Application being a set of ClientID and secrets used to generate tokens so your bot can login to chat in the first place 
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How does your bot login to chat then?
Are you using a third party third party token generator…
Yup sounds correct and is not dissimilar from what I do.
Either or work I know people ahve used either.
I prefer MySQL myself over something like firebase
EventSub doesn’t support websockets, yet.
So you’d be using “traditional” webhook style HTTP Post.
But the same express server you create for people to login to your dashboard with, can be used to handle EventSub messages.