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Share your Web Projects Easily

Pratik Singh on December 24, 2020

This article is about sharing your localhost as a link that anyone can access. We will achieve this using ngrok As a Web Developer, w...
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Tobias Nickel

once I implemented my own version for a localhost proxy. custom localtunnel.

When doing this, I definetly found the value in using it just as a service. i think it is great for exposing my raspberry pi.

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Shahjada Talukdar

I made a video on ngrok few days back-

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Pratik Singh

Now that's Awesome.
Thanks for the video and reading my article

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Ahmed

been using it for a while. Great to fix things live with clients.
But was hoping the livereload would work. Hope it will come in the next iteration.

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Pratik Singh

The next update hopefully covers this issue🤞

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Rakesh

didn't know this...thanks for sharing pratik

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Pratik Singh

My pleasure Rakesh.
Thanks for reading my article.
If you found it helpful do share it so that it might help others as well

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Rakesh

sure

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz

Thanks for reminding about ngrok.

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Pratik Singh

My Pleasure.
Thanks for reading my artcle

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Cameron Thompson

Can’t wait to try this!

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Pratik Singh

Yeah 🤘

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Kris M.

Thank you. A nice alternative to spinning up something on Heroku (or similar).

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Pratik Singh

My pleasure😊
Thank you for reading my article

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Koas

ngrok it's a great piece of software, I've been using it a lot recently while developing a Telegram bot, it allows you to get the Telegram messages on your localhost.

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Pratik Singh

I agree the possibilities are great.
I was planning to use it on a Raspberry pi Once

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Saham Alam

Great tool.

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Pratik Singh

I know Right🤯👏

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Somos 404

fuaaaaaaaaaaaa me salvaste de un problemazo que estaba teniendo con una pasarela de pagos. Muchas gracias!

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Pratik Singh

El gusto es mio.
Gracias por leer mi artículo

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Aad Pouw • Edited

Instead of 'localhost' can use this service for 'mywebsite.local' too?