localhost - How to run your Shopify app without Ngrok?

Solution:

You can use Cloudflare Tunnel (http://cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/) in one of my apps. I use Laravel, I configured all the required commands to run viapackage.json file, so I just need to run yarn dev and it will run:

• source .env
• php artisan serve --host=localhost --port=8000
• cloudflared tunnel run your_tunnel_name_here
• NODE_ENV=development yarn watch

You will have to make sure you configure Cloudflare to not have the cache to the URL you decided to use. Then you will have your app running via a free tunnel as before.

This is how mypackage.json looks like:

{
    "name": "my_app_name_here",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "sh -c 'source .env; php artisan serve --host=localhost --port=8000 & cloudflared tunnel your_tunnel_name_here & NODE_ENV=development yarn watch'",
        "production": "mix --production",
        "build": "NODE_ENV=production yarn production"
    },...
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