Safe VS Expose

Compare Safe vs Expose and see what are their differences.

Safe

All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false (by thecodingmachine)

Expose

A beautiful, fully open-source, tunneling service - written in pure PHP (by beyondcode)
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Safe Expose
7 11
2,305 4,151
0.8% 0.4%
0.6 3.4
6 days ago 16 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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Safe

Posts with mentions or reviews of Safe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.

Expose

Posts with mentions or reviews of Expose. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
  • A beautiful, fully open-source, tunneling service – written in pure PHP
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2023
  • Best 5 ngrok alternatives in 2023
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 6 Jun 2023
    Expose is another good one.
  • How to forward ports via VPS & VPN
    2 projects | /r/Starlink | 19 Sep 2022
    So in the end, for those interested with the same issue (How to forward ports behind the Starlink CGNAT), all the VPN providers I tried were bad (the IP they allow to open weren't working well, or they only provide dynamic IPs), so in the end I : 1/ bought a small router on Amazon, the GL-MT1300 (by GL-iNet) but their smaller routers should work too: https://www.amazon.fr/GL-iNet-GL-MT1300-Wireless-Pocket-Sized-Repeater/dp/B08MKZXGBY?ref\_=ast\_sto\_dp 2/ installed AstroRelay on it (followed this tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RkMeO4kDg ): https://astrorelay.com And that's it, all my local services work like a charm and are accessible outside. I didn't have to roll up my sleeve to setup a VPS or to setup reverse SSH tunnel. As an alternative to AstroRelay I could have used these services but they seemed a bit more complex to install or use: - https://ngrok.com/ - https://expose.dev/ - https://localxpose.io/ - https://tunnelto.dev/ - https://www.zerotier.com/
  • Port number pass-through
    1 project | /r/safing | 19 Sep 2022
    If you still want to use the SPN for the connection, a service like this can be a work around: https://expose.dev/
  • How to test Webhooks on your localhost
    1 project | dev.to | 19 May 2022
    In order to achieve that, there are multiple tools that can help you with that such as ngrok or expose
  • ngrok alternative?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 11 May 2022
    I use Expose and it works awesome for me
  • Testing Webhooks with ngrok (With apologies to Thor and Billy Mays)
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 2 Apr 2022
    An alternative to ngrok, written in PHP, open source: https://expose.dev/
  • How to setup a Tunneling server using Cleavr
    1 project | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022
    There are plenty of tunneling solutions that can be used for local development, such as: Ngrok, Localtunnel, and Expose.
  • Domain for single use only
    1 project | /r/PHP | 19 Feb 2022
    A great solution is https://expose.dev it’s like ngrock but for php apps. Basically instal. The app and run on simple command on app folder and your app will be accessible via web
  • Ngrok Alternative
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Safe and Expose you can also consider the following projects:

PHP Dotenv - Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.

Symfony VarDumper - Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

sshpiper - The missing reverse proxy for ssh scp

phpstan-safe-rule - A PHPStan rule to be used with the thecodingmachine/safe package

Symfony Dotenv - Registers environment variables from a .env file

chisel - A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP

Yo! Symfony TOML - A PHP parser for TOML

framework - :gem: Go! AOP PHP - modern aspect-oriented framework for the new level of software development

PHP-GPIO - A PHP library to play with the Raspberry PI's GPIO pins