ngrok VS playit-agent

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.

ngrok

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.

There are so many weird suggestions in the comments. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned ngrok https://ngrok.com/ (there are many competing alternatives as well). It makes exposing local service over HTTPS trivial. It's been used heavily in most of my engineering orgs.

Ngrok: This provides about 2hours on the free account but requires account registration and adding your authtoken, and starting it is as simple as running ngrok http 8080

playit.gg - Specifically marketed as tunneling for game servers. Client is open source. Server is not. Has a free tier. TCP and UDP supported. Custom domains and dedicated IPs available. Client written in Rust.

Yes the client is open source, https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent. The main release is on this branch: https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent/tree/v0.9

This is similar to https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent. You guys should work together

The program is mainly made for users behind CG-NAT. But if you don't have access to your router, or simply don't want to share your home IP, it also works great. The program is open source (the server side is proprietary): https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent

Well it's opensource so you're more than welcome compiling and running it https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent.

The Playit.gg client is open source (Link). I haven't personally gone through the repository yet, but if there were malicious code the community would have been vocal about it.

There's some trust involved with running software on your computer, but we try to be as transparent as possible and have open sourced the playit program: https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent.

For the past two years I've been developing playit.gg. Last week I launched a new version that fixes tons of bugs and is open source! https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent

Here's a video tutorial showing how you can set it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqmgruvamd (the program is open source btw https://github.com/playit-cloud/playit-agent).