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I can't get over the fact, that he is using "a public internet URL" to tunnel the traffic to his local server, just to watch it on his phone. What he should have done: - Make his local server listen on his local ip like <<local-lan-ip>>:3000 instead of just 127.0.0.1:3000 - Connect his cellphone to his local lan with wifi. - Look at the site on <<local-lan-ip>>:3000 on his cellphone.

I would never make a connection from a public Domain to my local machine just to test something. It's just too risky.



Maybe he can't connect his phone to the same network the local server is on? Maybe he wants to share the URL to people not on the same network?


You know that a URL can be mapped to any IP including private address ranges via DNS right?


Same. It's very weird that he did that. It is even more work and doesn't bring him any benefit.

I want to know if he had any reason to do so.




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