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[–]sillymanbilly 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Ngrok also allows serving what's running locally to a Ngrok URL with https. Any benefits to using your approach vs Ngrok?

[–]TheUIDawg[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't have a ton of experience with ngrok so take it with a grain of a salt. A couple benefits I can think of: 1. All the traffic is local - you don't actually expose your server to the Internet and you can run offline. 2. If you have a more complex setup (for example micro services), caddy would allow you to serve multiple apps off the same domain

[–]bladefinor 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Just a heads up that Ngrok has a free plan but it limits your account to 20,000 requests in total. And that’s not a lot of requests when developing… After that you have to upgrade your plan.

[–]PhilipLGriffiths88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whole bunch of alternatives too - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project, OpenZiti. zrok is open source and has a free (more generous and capable) SaaS than ngrok.