What is the best way to let someone test your webapp

Question

I've been creating an webapp (just for learning purposes) using python django, and have no intention in deploying it. However, is there a way to let someone else, try the webapplication, or more precisely: Is it possible to somehow test the webapp on another computer. I tried to send det source code (and the whole folder), to another computer, installed virtual environment, activated it, and tried to runserver. However, I always get runtimeerror:maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp. Is there any other way around it?

Answer 1

You can use ngrok -- https://ngrok.com/ -- to create a public URL to your local server for testing, and then give that URL to people so they can try your webapp.

Answer 2

You can also use Localtunnel to easily share a web service on your local development without deploying the code in the server.

Install the localtunnel

npm install -g localtunnel

Start a webserver on some local port (eg http://localhost:8000) and use the command line interface to request a tunnel to your local server

lt --port 8000

You will receive a url, for example https://xyz.localtunnel.me, that you can share with anyone for as long as your local instance of lt remains active. Any requests will be routed to your local service at the specified port.