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Discussion on: How to access localhost from the Internet?

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Giles

That's a fair thing to do if you're building a frontend application. Though this posts example is purely just to show off something running from localhost. I've used ngrok in the past to test webhook implementations sent from third parties. For example, I needed to capture a webhook fired from DocuSign and debug it (in dotnet) but DocuSign doesn't know anything about my localhost. Deploying to a server doesn't help either because then I can't step through my code! Scenarios like this is where things like ngrok really shine. But if you're just wanting to show off work, agreed may as well just deploy somewhere and have a bit more guarantee it'll always be accessible.