By Robbie | June 2, 2020
Introduction
This tutorial will show you how to use expose.sh to give you a public HTTPs URL you can use to access local instances including docker containers, VMs and web servers
Download expose.sh for your system
Go to Expose.sh and copy/paste the installation code shown into a terminal
Expose your local site to the web
Find out what port your local site is using. Once you know what that is, run expose <port>.
Expose.sh will generate a random public expose.sh URL. You’ll see output like
https://s3rh.expose.sh is forwarding to localhost:80
http://s3rh.expose.sh is forwarding to localhost:80
The first URL is for HTTPs and the second is regular HTTP. We recommend using the first one wherever possible for security reasons.
Access your local service with the new public URL
Now type the URL you were given into your browser. You’ll now see your local site. You can even share it with co-workers and clients, it will work from any device that has a working internet connection.
Conclusion
As you can see, using expose.sh can make your life a whole lot easier, so you can focus on building your app instead of networking!
Happy coding!