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I just use ngrok.com. Makes specific localhost ports accessible regardless of network.
by maliker 5y ago
I just use ngrok.com. Makes specific localhost ports accessible regardless of network.
- danielvaughn 5y agoI love ngrok outside of two pain points - (1) the urls are kind of difficult to type into a phone, and (2) the latency can be pretty terrible at times.
- paskozdilar 5y agoIn my opinion, (2) is a feature, not a bug. You never know what kind of connection your users have. Ngrok forces you to consider the "bad connection" factor early on in development, which can avoid many pitfalls that occur when network software assumes that latency is zero and bandwidth is unlimited.
- skinnymuch 5y agoIt’s not a feature imo when there are other ways to force a “bad connection”. However with ngrok if latency is bad. You can’t ever change fhat.
- paskozdilar 5y agoThat's a fair point. I suppose latency is important if you use ngrok for something other than development. I use ngrok exclusively for development, so that's where my comment comes from.
- danielvaughn 5y agoYeah I don't fault them at all - what they're doing is going to be inherently difficult from a latency POV. I'm really comparing it against just opening a port to your local network.
- skinnymuch 5y agoI have switched over to using Tailscale. But that only works if the devices are mine before the friction of someone else’s device being set up happens
- stuartd 5y agoThe basic paid plan is pretty cheap and lets you use your_subdomain_name.ngrok.com as the address.
- janjones 5y agoLocaltunnel[1] is also great, you don't even have to sign up. [1] https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/ https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/
- pricci 5y agoI prefer Cloudflare Tunnels. Just install cloudflared.
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