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How to expose your local server to Internet?

As a developer, we always have a wish to expose our work to internet, so that we can show those to our friends or teachers for testing. But, what we choose to use services of public cloud and sometimes it becomes a bit more expensive way for small projects. So, friends I have found a way to expose your localhost services to the internet without port forwarding through the NAT of your ISP. The solution is: NGROK What is ngrok? Ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels. How it works You download and run a program on your machine and provide it the port of a network service, usually a web server. It connects to the ngrok cloud service which accepts traffic on a public address and relays that traffic through to the ngrok process running on your machine and then on to the local address you specified. What it's good for Demoing web sites without deploying Building webhook consumers on your dev machine Testing m