Testing using Ngrok

We have learned a lot about remote debugging but there is a problem such as hosting your Ionic App to a public location where any device on the Internet can access it. Also, sometimes you have to integrate your Ionic App to some local APIs and then test it on an actual device.

It would be very tedious and cumbersome to upload your backend and Ionic App to a public-facing server every time you want to test some functionality. Ngrok is an excellent tool that enables you to expose your local host server on any port to the Internet world using a public URL.

Ngrok acts as a secure tunnel between your local machine and a public URL, which people can access on any device. You can use this public URL in the methods given previously in this chapter to remotely debug your Ionic App.

Ngrok is very easy to use, you have to download it from the Internet. It will be downloaded as an archive, unzip it, and save it. You can also install using the npm command, npm install -g ngrok. Now open...