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heya good question! there's a few players in this space and I'd encourage anyone to look around to find the one best suited to their workflow, they're all grea
by tommyvan 5y ago
heya good question!
there's a few players in this space and I'd encourage anyone to look around to find the one best suited to their workflow, they're all great tools.
I wrote localhost.run as a natural evolution from a SSH reverse tunnel I had running on an EC2 instance, I was using it to develop webhooks. I thought it was neat that I didn't have to download a client to use it so I opened it up to the world not long after.
webhook.site looks great, I've been using requestbin.com for years which is a similar tool. I'd place these in my pre-development toolkit, where I only want to see the shape of hooks rather than react to them. Once I start working on handling those webhooks tho I find it more useful to pull development back to my local development environment, and that's where a tunneling tool like localhost.run can speed up my feedback loop significantly.
I hope you too find it useful, please do tell me more about something you use it for in the future!