[kwlug-disc] Use ngrok to share your local service to Internet

[Raymond Chen]

Before I discovered ngrok <https://ngrok.com/>, if I wanted to share a
temporary web service running on my localhost:8080 to somebody across the
Internet, I would use my Raspberry Pi or a  Google cloud VM, with SSH
tunnel to redirect the traffic to my local service. If I need HTTPS, I
would have to generate the cert and key with openssl and set them up with
http-server which is a node.js model. And the cert is self-signed, of
course.
But with ngrok, it's just one command, you will have dynamic endpoints both
on http and https. No more self-signed cert warning, no more time-consuming
tunnel creation. I believe it's still a tunnel under the hood, only ngrok
does all the heavy lifting for you.
Check it out if you're not already using it.

Raymond
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