The purpose of this list is to track and compare tunneling solutions. This is primarily targeted toward self-hosters and developers who want to do things like exposing a local webserver via a public domain name, with automatic HTTPS, even if behind a NAT or other restricted network.
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What is ngrok?
ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels.
How it works
You download and run a program on your machine and provide it the port of a network service, usually a web server.
It connects to the ngrok cloud service which accepts traffic on a public address and relays that traffic through to the ngrok process running on your machine and then on to the local address you specified.
What it's good for
- Demoing web sites without deploying
- Building webhook consumers on your dev machine
- Testing mobile apps connected to your locally running backend
- Stable addresses for your connected devices that are deployed in the field
- Running personal cloud services from your home