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HN comment orderA lot of people seem to be a bit confused about the point of ngrok, why it's useful, how much it costs, etc. Let me try and help out. :) For me, the killer feature for ngrok is testing/developing webhooks. You install ngrok in your dev environment, start it up, then point the stripe/slack/whatever webhook your working on at the generated URL. ngrok will 1) proxy that request through to your dev environment 2) log the request 3) log the…
As is usually mentioned in reference to this, the same can be achieved on the command line with: `ssh [email protected] -R [remoteport]:localhost:[localport]` Where 'yourserver.com' is a server you own, such that accessing 'http://yourserver.com:[remoteport]' tunnels to 'http://localhost:[localport]'.
This sounds technically similar to runscope[1] (reverse proxy via the cloud), although they are specifically focused on debugging/testing web APIs. [1] https://www.runscope.com/
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