localtunnel VS shopify-node-mongodb-next-app

Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:

OG localtunnel (2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...

Other localtunnel (2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...

ngrok (2012): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...

I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

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.

localtunnel — Expose locally running servers over a tunnel to a public URL. Free hosted version, and open source.

Localtunnel used to be a nice tunnel. It has gone through some enshittification lately.

> tunnel consent page now requires the tunnel creator's public IP in order to access tunnel content

https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/598

There are free non kafkaesque competitors out there.

I recently went through having to tunnel my development environment to setup an oauth2 flow for a rails integration. I found that using https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel was a better fit.

I prefer localtunnel: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

There's also Local Tunnel (http://localtunnel.me)

Not sure if it works combined with ngrok: https://www.npmjs.com/package/localtunnel

If you're using MongoDB (or if you know some basics you can easily figure out how to substitute mongo with other dbs), you can take a look at the implementation in my Koa x Next.js repo that deals with this issue. Also, from my experience, this issue pops up when your old session tokens tell the server that the app should be installed but in reality isn't, so your server bypasses the auth redirect and takes you directly to the app, giving you get a "No page at this address" issue.

But ye if there's anything I can help with I've opened up discussions on the repo and I am super active on Twitter too!

MongoDB session storage already set up (full credit goes to Harshdeep Singh Hura)

Hey App Devs! I'm working on boilerplate code that's available freely on GitHub and I would love for y'all to check it out!

Wait. Why are you going through so much work when you can use localtunnel from npm package? I've been using this for a while, and been working on a boilerplate that uses Localtunnel and MongoDB that's available on GitHub