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No more localhost:8080 In your development

Park Sehun
2 min readNov 17, 2023

There are a lot of tools to make your front door for your applications to expose your local (private) servers at home to be connected via the internet users. Many solutions are out there for you with commercial versions or even open sources.

ref: https://techmonger.github.io/20/httptunnel-working/

There are many differences in the services and structure, the architectural views are very similar across all solutions. It allows developers to expose their local web servers to the internet and make the local development box exposed to the internet through tunnelling.

Demo: with ngrok

To run ngrok in your local PC, it just requires only three steps.

(1) You will need to install the ngrok instance https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started/setup. (Mostly download the packages and run!)

https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started/setup

Once you download ngrok, (2) you will need to run your local web server with the xxx port.

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