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Mar 20, 2023 30 min

HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more!

from Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats Hosted by Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:09 GitHub tarball web streams 05:09 Sponsor: Sentry 05:48 Why would I need security locally? Caddy Server 11:23 Cookie issues 13:04 Examples of things that need a secure context MDN Features restricted to secure contexts 14:58 What is tunneling? 19:22 Cloudflare Tunnels Cloudflared Cloudflare Tunnel 20:50 nGrok ngrok 23:22 Local tunnel Local Tunnel 24:55 Tunnel to Tunnel to dev - Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL 26:02 Cloudflare subdomain Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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