Here’s something that is pretty neat. Someone introduced me to this service and I believe you all should try it out. The service I am talking about is ngrok. Not sure if any of you use it, but this service allows you to mirror your localhost
without having to push your development files to a live server. Whatever you do on your localhost
, ngrok
will also mirror it. So say you opened up the ngrok URL
that the CL
gave you, once you make a modification to your localhost
, ngrok
will also have that same modification once you refresh your ngrok URL
.
What this does is it allows you to share your localhost
to other people if say you want to share what is going on in your localhost
or even if you have some kind of bug that you want others to fix. Screen print is a very good idea, but most people don’t really use this method because they are too lazy to upload the files to an image service or even to SitePoint
. Sometimes, people actually don’t know how to upload photos to SitePoint
because they have never used Markdown
before.
So I suggest using ngrok to share your ideas or even get help from people.
NOTE
I haven’t tried using ngrok
and shutting off my laptop. I believe once the session for using ngrok
is cut off/ over, ngrok
will stop mirroring your localhost
. This means that in order to use ngrok
, you MUST always have your PC on. When your PC is turned off, ngrok
will stop until you re-open ngrok
again.
Now, this doesn’t mean that you should keep your PC on forever. It just means that when you turn off your system, ngrok
will stop working. I also don’t suggest keeping your PC on if you don’t want to waste money on electricity. ngrok
is just a service for you to mirror your localhost
whenever you want. It’s not a service you would want to keep open every single minute.