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ray		tailscale
	Project
16	Mentions	1,006
545	Stars	16,535
1.1%	Growth	6.1%
8.3	Activity	9.9
6 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
PHP	Language	Go
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ray

Posts with mentions or reviews of ray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

How to Debug PHP and Laravel Code?
1 project | /r/laravel | 8 Jul 2023

I'm using Ray (https://myray.app/) from spatie, it's easy to install (composer) and is doing all I need :)
Software Developer Mac Apps
44 projects | /r/macapps | 17 May 2023

https://myray.app/ (when not xdebugging)
How do I get xDebug to chill on remote?
3 projects | /r/laravel | 22 Oct 2022

Similar but not free: https://myray.app
I hate PHP development
4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 17 Aug 2022
What’s your typical list of paid software and services you use as a Laravel developer?
10 projects | /r/laravel | 30 Jul 2022
Using `dd` and `dump` in any PHP file on your system
6 projects | /r/PHP | 4 Mar 2022

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Ray"
senior developers are amateurs (source in comments)
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 26 Jan 2022

testimonials gone wrong at myray.app
ray VS xr - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 26 Jan 2022
Announcing x-ray
5 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2021

I'm proud to announce the initial release of the spatie/x-ray package for Ray. The x-ray package provides a command-line utility that finds and displays all calls to ray(), rd(), and other functions from the spatie/ray family of packages. Currently, it only supports PHP projects.
Speed up migrations when running Laravel tests
1 project | dev.to | 25 Aug 2021

This command generates a file in database/schema and deletes all my migration files. Before squashing the migrations, it was taking 11.031 seconds according to well placed Ray call in the RefreshDatabase trait:

tailscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of tailscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

Building a Managed Service Provider Business With Open Source
14 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024

Tailscale
How to update Go version of tailscaled on macOS
1 project | dev.to | 22 Mar 2024

I'm using the GitHub version of tailscaled on one of my Macs as a background daemon launched at boot. To upgrade to the latest version, try the following:
Home Lab Guide
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2024
🛡️4 Top Database Security Tools in 2024 🏆🔥
4 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard® protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.
Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024

Might be possible to do using a VPN as long as you can get broadcast/multicast packets forwarded.
Tailscale unfortunately doesn't support it...yet?
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013
GitHub issues from top Open Source Golang Repositories that you should contribute to
8 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024

Tailscale - Make depaware output patch compatible
I have made a smalll NAS server using samba. What is the port to fwd to get to it externally
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Dec 2023

Tailscale is another way of doing it. I'm using it to access my Pi's Samba shares from my phone but it works from Windows as well.
Remote Printing
1 project | /r/Tailscale | 11 Dec 2023
SSH configuration
1 project | /r/archlinux | 11 Dec 2023
Loss of remote access
1 project | /r/emby | 10 Dec 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ray and tailscale you can also consider the following projects:

ray-proxy - a proxy for the Ray app to allow debugging of payloads

headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

python-devtools - Dev tools for python

Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

backtrace - A better backtrace

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

laravel-ray - Debug with Ray to fix problems faster in Laravel apps

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

app - The old version of Buggregator, which uses Laravel framework, is no longer being actively developed. The new beta version, built with Spiral framework, is now available at https://github.com/buggregator/spiral-app and offers significant improvements in performance and stability, as well as a lighter docker image size of around 300mb.

pivpn - The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi

php-console-extension

Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security