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ngrok vs ShutIt: What are the differences?

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; ShutIt: Automation tool that models a user's actions on a terminal. It can automate any process that can be run by a human on the command line with little effort. It was originally written to manage complex Docker builds, but is a now general-purpose automation tool that supports bash, Docker, Vagrant, ssh and arbitrary build contexts.

ngrok and ShutIt can be primarily classified as "localhost" tools.

ngrok and ShutIt are both open source tools. It seems that ngrok with 16.5K GitHub stars and 2.87K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ShutIt with 1.99K GitHub stars and 121 GitHub forks.

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Pros of ngrok

Pros of ShutIt

26
Easy to use
11
Super-fast
7
Free
6
Awesome traffic analysis page
5
Reliable custom domains
1
Mobile development
1
Shares service-wide metrics
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Supports UTP And HTTPS

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Cons of ngrok

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Doesn't Support UDP
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El tunel SSH cambia de dominio constantemente

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What is ngrok?

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 ShutIt?

It can automate any process that can be run by a human on the command line with little effort. It was originally written to manage complex Docker builds, but is a now general-purpose automation tool that supports bash, Docker, Vagrant, ssh and arbitrary build contexts.

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What are some alternatives to ngrok and ShutIt?

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

PageKite

PageKite is a system for exposing localhost servers to the public Internet. It is most commonly used to make local web servers or SSH servers publicly visible, although almost any TCP-based protocol can work if the client knows how to use an HTTP proxy.

Postman

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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