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What is the purpose and/or novelty of this project? Just a simple http server? Or that it’s js?

• mbreese 7y ago
  If you are developing a service / webapp on a local machine, you can use something like this (or ngrok) to make it publicly accessible to demo or test. The novelty of this, I think, is that it provides both client and server programs. So that instead of paying for a service like ngrok, you can deploy this on your own. At least, that was my takeaway.
  • obituary_latte 7y ago
    Ah interesting. I guess I've been spoiled with built-in apache all these years (and terrified of the idea of opening up LAN to public). Thanks!
    • mbreese 7y ago
      The idea here is that you’re exposing the LAN the minimum amount possible, and only indirectly... all public access is through the server component, which you could lock down as much or as little as possible.
      • obituary_latte 7y ago
        Makes sense. I’d still 1000 times over pay for a cloud/virtual server from some provider (even if only for a day) than trust myself to configure something like that 100% securely.