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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:09 GitHub tarball web streams 05:09 Sponsor: Sentry 05:48 Why would I need security locally? Caddy Server 11:23 Cookie issues 13:04 Examples of things that need a secure context MDN Features restricted to secure contexts 14:58 What is tunneling? 19:22 Cloudflare Tunnels Cloudflared Cloudflare Tunnel 20:50 nGrok ngrok 23:22 Local tunnel Local Tunnel 24:55 Tunnel to Tunnel to dev - Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL 26:02 Cloudflare subdomain Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:26.0	Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about
0:33.0	tunneling your local host and HTTP as the type of thing that you will eventually
0:39.0	need to get into whenever you're working on a website that needs to access some
0:45.0	sort of secure context locally or perhaps you need to have your local host
0:50.0	available to the outside world for any number of reasons. We're going to be
0:55.0	talking all about that and more. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer and
0:59.0	with me today, as always, is Wes Boss. What's up, Wes? How's it going?
1:04.0	Oh, not too much. Actually, I want to add something to a previous show
1:09.0	that we did because I was driving this morning listening to our show on
1:13.0	Web Streams. And I totally forgot the best use case of streams I've ever
1:20.0	heard of. And that is some fortunately not sandwiches. It's the GitHub
1:26.0	tarballer. So you know when you go to GitHub and you download a repo,
1:30.0	that zip downloads immediately. And I always like, for like, I knew I've
1:36.0	known this for a couple years, but before that, I was always just like,
1:39.0	how do they zip it so quickly? But when the files in that zip could
1:45.0	change at any time, they're not generating zip files of every repo ever
1:49.0	every time there's a commit. They do it on demand, but it's, it's fast as
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