How to Expose a Local Server with Cloudflare Tunnel
Why nobody outside your network can reach localhost A webhook provider needs a URL it can POST to, and your server is sitting on localhost:3000. Or a teammate wants to click through the branch you’re running, or your phone needs to hit the dev server to check a layout. The server is up. Nothing outside your network can reach it. Port forwarding on your router would work, but it exposes your home IP and needs admin access you often don’t have. Cloudflare Tunnel takes the other route. cloudflared, a small daemon you run next to your server, opens an outbound connection to Cloudflare’s edge, and Cloudflare sends traffic back through it. You open no inbound port and you don’t need a public IP. ...