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A developer shares their experience moving from ngrok tunneling to GitHub Actions self-hosted runners for local integration testing. The article explains how self-hosted runners eliminate the need for port forwarding and tunneling by executing CI workflows directly on the local machine, providing instant code updates and simpler setup. The approach works best for private repositories and controlled environments where the machine can remain active during job execution.

Why I Stopped Fighting With Ngrok

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Why I Stopped Fighting With Ngrok

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I needed my GitHub Actions workflow to hit an API running on my local machine. Nothing fancy, just a simple integration test that depended on my laptop acting like a temporary server. The obvious move was to expose the local port with ngrok.
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That was the obvious move? 😃
The obvious move would’ve been to move the local stuff to a better location.

Bit lack lustre. Some examples of the ngrok commands, parsing headers e.t.c.

There are other alternatives and also you can do the whole tunneling with SSH too.
Depends how deep you want to go, Ngrok is not just about tunneling ports.