In the previous chapter, we described webhooks; they fulfill an intent to send back dynamic code after the intent is matched. You could use Dialogflow fulfillment libraries to do this or just retrieve the results from the posted Dialogflow request. It executes your own (back-end) code. After the intent detection happens by the Dialogflow integrations, you don’t need to call the detectIntent method manually.
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