A recommendation for web developers

@Andres_Vaquero
So are you proposing that everyone learns to upload a screenshot of their problems using the Markdown features? Because I can surely say that’s a far reach. Especially when most people don’t know how to use the Markdown features or don’t care to use it. And would rather have to describe a situation and have others try to comprehend the broken English and figure out what they need. A clear example can be your quote you took off that article which you clearly didn’t format correctly.

Aside from that, ngrok’s tunneling process allows you to use ngrok safely. It’s protected through ngrok’s servers. You can also view who is looking at your localhost on the dashboard on ngrok. If the IP Address looks suspicious, you can simply cut off your connection and generate a new ngrok URL.

Here are the docs on it. https://ngrok.com/docs#inspect

You can also whitelist certain IP Address to access your localhost. https://ngrok.com/docs#whitelist


Again, ngrok isn’t a service for CONSTANT sharing which most people will likely use ngrok for. They believe that this is a way to host their websites without paying money to hosting providers which is a terrible idea. This is why I included the lines

if you don’t want to waste money on electricity.

It’s because ngrok is just a service to share your localhost with other coworkers or people you trust.


I have yet to see any other bad reviews other than that single one you posted which seems to be someone trolling the internet. I’ve searched for hours on Google using the terms

do not use ngrok
why ngrok is bad

You should also look at the testimonials on ngrok if you’re so suspicious about it.

https://ngrok.com/love


Sorry to spoil you, but I haven’t seen any bad reviews other than that one saying that everyone should stop using it because it’s dangerous. The idea of this topic is to allow others to share ideas or development files where they don’t have to upload it to a live server or purchase a web hosting account which could save them a lot of money. This is probably the closest to hosting a website on your own local machine. If you are truly an “IT” user, you should already know to always update your system and always scan your computer no matter what the circumstances are. And if you are someone like me, you would always be watching what processes are running and if it looks suspicious or it doesn’t look like a software you download, you would normally end the process on it or scan that specific process.

But I guess it’s a “No No” for me because I am apparently not a “Web developer” even though I know how to deploy my own localhost without using XAMPP or WAMP or MAMP or Vagrant on a VM. And apparently, this doesn’t mean jack if I am not a “Web Developer”.

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/installing-the-php-environment-spaceshiptrooper-style/253192