Roll your own ngrok in 15 minutes

How to expose your local server over nginx aka reverse proxy over ssh.

This is one of my favorite posts from a few years ago. It shows how a common service, like ngrok, that costs money, can be recreated in 15 minutes for a single developer.

I enjoy finding “hacks” like this. It shows sometimes, something that seems big and complex, can be made much simpler if you understand the foundations that thing is built on.

Hope you enjoy, I’m preparing a bunch of new content for 2024 that will be coming soon!