While working at home on your development machine, you've put in many hours developing the new web application. Your implementation should be tested on a variety of mobile and tablet devices to make sure it's working as it should. You don't have the time to host everything on a public server just so your client may have a look at least until you are ready for production.
Most web developers are likely to have encountered this scenario at some point. This is an all-too-common occurrence and you undoubtedly hoped there was a simpler and faster method to move stuff to a public-facing server during those occasions when you had to stay up all night hosting your still in-development web app.
Rejoice, you weary web devs! There's a new and better way to do things! You may access your localhost from the Internet using a wide variety of apps and services, making this procedure a lot less cumbersome. The following are the ones I'll be discussing in this short article:
- Ngrok
- Localtunnel
- Telbit
- Localhost.run
- Cloudflare tunnel
These services are called tunnels which come in handy to establish a secure but temporary connection between your localhost and the Internet.
There are also a number of paid options, like pagekite, Forward and Burrow.io.
For detailed instructions, you can read Expose localhost dev server to the Internet
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