solana-pay VS ngrok

Probably start here https://solanapay.com/

Solana Pay

Is there no Ethereum equivalent of Solana Pay?

With Solana pay merchants will save the ~3% charged by payment processors. https://solanapay.com/

That is where CandyPay comes in. CandyPay lets you create NFTs with a no-code builder and also lets users easily claim them via Solana Pay on mobile without worrying about installing any browser extension or connecting their wallet.

Solana is undoubtedly one of the most innovative blockchain projects in the entire Web3 industry. You can make your own judgments on the recent exploit, previous slowdowns and other issues. But you cannot deny how fast the infrastructure is being built out. Just in the past few months, Solana has announced three groundbreaking pieces of news — the opening of a physical store called Solana Spaces, a new mobile phone platform with its own mobile stack that operates Solana based dApps and Solana Pay. These blockchain and IRL applications are major landmarks in the development and future adoption of Web3 technology. We will have extensive research on all of the latest Solana releases. Starting with this blog, which will focus on Solana Pay. Read on to understand how it works and how you can implement it right now, for free!

Solana launched a cringe merch store but you can't use their payments system they themselves describe as "the digital commerce revolution", it's either credit card or PayPal:

I was very excited about Solana Pay[0] when it dropped last year, but it doesn't seem to have gotten much traction.

0. https://solanapay.com/

Commencing this tutorial will require us to clone Solana pay’s Github repository. You can choose to download it as a zip file from the official repository or run the command below in a terminal on vscode:

Solana Pay: Solana Pay is an open and free-to-use payments framework. It is a direct merchant-to-client system that utilizes Solana's speed and low transaction fee while also being energy efficient. It claims to be the potential “Visa of the Blockchain ecosystem”.

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