ngrok vs Pagekit: What are the differences?

What is ngrok? Securely expose a local web server to the internet and capture all traffic for detailed inspection and replay. ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay.

What is Pagekit? A modular and lightweight CMS built with Symfony components. Pagekit gives you the tools to create beautiful websites. No matter if it's a simple blog, your company's website or a web service. Pagekit has a modular and extendable architecture and is built on top of Symfony components and modern open source libraries.

ngrok can be classified as a tool in the "localhost Tools" category, while Pagekit is grouped under "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS".

Some of the features offered by ngrok are:

• Expose any http service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a subdomain of ngrok.com
• Expose any tcp service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a random port of ngrok.com
• Inspect all http requests/responses that are transmitted over the tunnel

On the other hand, Pagekit provides the following key features:

• Responsive Design
• Blog
• Users & Permissions

"Easy to use" is the primary reason why developers consider ngrok over the competitors, whereas "Intuitive ui" was stated as the key factor in picking Pagekit.

ngrok and Pagekit are both open source tools. ngrok with 16.5K GitHub stars and 2.87K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pagekit with 5.15K GitHub stars and 608 GitHub forks.