NuVotifier VS ngrok

Setup guide for votifier: https://github.com/NuVotifier/NuVotifier/wiki/Setup-Guide

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To make your voice assistant accessible from the internet, you can use a tool called Ngrok. Ngrok allows you to expose your local Laravel server to the internet. Run the command below in your project's root directory.

Before configuring our Kubernetes cluster, we needed to install the ngrok Ingress Controller so we could use ngrok to provide ingress to our application. Ingress is "an API object that manages external access to the services in a cluster."

Many good reverse proxy solutions currently exist on the market such as ngrok and Cloudflare tunnels. They give one the ability to reliably run a tunnel and ensure it does not go down. They also offer the ability to securely access their links using whitelisted IP addresses or by using HTTP Basic Authentication.

These is a very common problem. Luckily, it's been solved already. My go-to tool for this was ngrok or localtunnel. Both of these tools are great, but they didn't fit my needs perfectly.

Ensure your app works as expected and provides a good user experience by thoroughly testing and debugging. Utilize tools like Chrome DevTools or Firefox Developer Tools to inspect and modify your app’s code, network, and storage. Employ tools like ngrok or localtunnel to expose your local development server to the internet, enabling testing on various devices and browsers.

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Tunnels (CloudFlare vs. Ngrok)

We need to make our WhatsApp API accessible on the internet so the trigger.dev cloud service can connect to it. We can do that by running ngrok in a separate terminal.

This means that Cronitor must have an endpoint that it can reach. Normally, we can't do that when developing on a personal machine. For this tutorial, however, we can use ngrok to establish a tunnel to our local Django application for testing purposes.