Ngrok

I now use Pgrok or Cloudflare Tunnel for exposing local services to the web (such as localhost).

Bore & rslocal seem nice too.

Using it

If I started my local server on port 3000. This command: ngrok http 3000 will create a shareable link of my tunneled server.

Notes

• ngrok lets you inspect incoming requests in a web UI, and even replay past requests.

Links

• Node wrapper for ngrok
• ngrok code
• pgrok - Free Introspected tunnels to localhost, like ngrok but free and unlimited.
• Setting up Cloudflare Tunnel for development (2021)
• JPRQ - Get Your Localhost Online and HTTPS. Ngrok Alternative.
• Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling (2019) (HN)
• Rslocal - Like ngrok built in Rust, it builds a tunnel to localhost.
• Tunnel.pyjam.as - HTTP tunnels without custom software thanks to WireGuard. (HN)
• t - Like ngrok, but ambitious.
• ngrok for the wicked, or expose your ports comfortably (2022)
• CRProxy - Simple and affordable ngrok alternative. (HN)
• Ngrok Firewall Toolkit
• ngrok-rs - Ngrok agent in library form, suitable for integrating directly into your Rust application.
• SirTunnel - Minimal, self-hosted, 0-config alternative to ngrok. Caddy+OpenSSH+50 lines of Python.
• Pgrok - Poor Man’s Ngrok. (HN)