This was a project I worked on over the Christmas break. It may not come through in the video but this is serving the webite straight from your computer, not backdoor uploading files.
I can definitely see why you would say that! ngrok uses tunnels to connect to your computer, this uses websockets to load and serve the requested documents.
The reason for this is that I wanted this to be a distributed solution. You can shard up the different routes across as many computers as you like and the front end will route and patchwork it together at the front end.
Along with that you can run the client over any number of computers and they will act as backups for eachother. So, if you turn off one computer, one of the others will pick up the slack.
I'm not super familar with ngrok, but if it does all that then I guess, beyond the technology, there isn't a massive amount of difference :)
pelagicAustral|4 years ago
gmarland|4 years ago
gmarland|4 years ago
Here's a video showing it in action: https://youtu.be/DaK4d4Belwk
It's really just a fun project I wrote to see if it was possible.
btdmaster|4 years ago
Just so you know, I was able to build this under Arch Linux with dotnet-sdk 6.0.0.sdk100-2:
gmarland|4 years ago
That's also good to know! I'll try and put together a Linux installer too :)
itake|4 years ago
gmarland|4 years ago
The reason for this is that I wanted this to be a distributed solution. You can shard up the different routes across as many computers as you like and the front end will route and patchwork it together at the front end.
Along with that you can run the client over any number of computers and they will act as backups for eachother. So, if you turn off one computer, one of the others will pick up the slack.
I'm not super familar with ngrok, but if it does all that then I guess, beyond the technology, there isn't a massive amount of difference :)