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Review on ngrok by James Jenkins

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Easy to use and highly customizable reverse proxy tool

I like how easy it is for me to get set up, especially when using Angular2+ with Webpack or Parcel in production mode. The documentation could be improved so that more examples are provided online rather than having multiple tutorials from different sources all over GitHub. Make sure you use an SSL certificate otherwise your clients will see this error message below. If using HTTPs then make sure your server supports HTTPS too as Chrome does not support mixed content errors at this time (but they may add some features in future). You can have two applications running locally but only one of them would respond if both used ngrok independently. This makes testing easier because you don't need another computer/browser just open 2 tabs each pointing towards their specific application hosted by ngrok.

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Pros
  • Easy setup no code changes needed!
  • Works well even behind corporate firewalls / proxies where other services such cloudfront do NOT work.
  • Great customer service & great community forum feedback
Cons
  • Some cons