Options to help you expose local projects to the internet, to be able to access them remotely, share with others, test on other devices etc.
I tried the following to expose the backend part of my project that runs on a RaspberryPi device.
- Cloudflare tunnel with cloudflared: did not work in the end, as I didn't want to move my domain to Cloudflare. Cloudflare Tunnel requires the name server to be Cloudflare so that it is Cloudflare's edge doing the DNS resolution.
- Serveo: did not work in the end as I needed my subdomain to be reachable with https, and serveo only worked with http. But this has great potential for use cases when you quickly want to expose a local server, so I'm sure I'll be coming back to it. Super quick to use from your terminal.
- Tailscale Funnel: ended up landing on this one (for now, at least). It works on my RaspberryPi and was easy to set up, and while I gave up on using my subdomain, I got the https part. Here is a blog post that explains in more depth why you might want to use this option and for what.
