Scott M. Fulton III

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Using ngrok in Production: Not Just for Testing Anymore

The biggest challenge in serving digital services across vast, global networks is enabling those services to communicate with each other securely. Securing the endpoints is often not nearly as daunting as securing the routes between them. If you’ve ever used ngrok to generate an ad hoc secure tunnel so that services and browsers can contact your application even when hosted on localhost, you’ve probably asked yourself whether it would be possible to deliver your production apps and APIs in the same frictionless manner. If you’re staging an API for testing on your dev team’s network or even your personal laptop, ngrok gives you a way to