👾 LocalXpose

Expose your localhost to the world 🌍
Secure tunnels for development, testing, and sharing

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🎯 What We Do

LocalXpose provides secure tunneling that just works. No VPN headaches, no fighting firewalls, no DNS drama.

For Developers: Share your local dev server instantly. Test webhooks, demo to clients, collaborate with teammates - all through secure, reliable tunnels.

For Production: Access servers and IoT devices behind any firewall. Whether you're managing infrastructure or deploying edge applications, connect to anything, anywhere - without requiring client installs or complex networking.

🔧 Built for Real-World Challenges

• Development & Testing: Instant HTTPS for localhost, webhook debugging, API integrations
• Remote Access: Manage servers without VPNs, access industrial systems behind firewalls
• IoT & Edge: Connect devices anywhere - no client software, no customer pain
• Infrastructure: Built-in SSL termination, load balancing, and DNS handling

🛠️ Get Started in Seconds

📦 Installation Options

Package Managers

# Homebrew (macOS)
brew install --cask localxpose

# Snap (Linux)
sudo snap install localxpose

# NPM
npm install -g loclx

# Chocolatey (Windows)
choco install localxpose

Docker

docker pull localxpose/localxpose

Find us on:

• 🐳 Docker Hub
• 📦 npm
• 🍺 Homebrew
• 🍫 Chocolatey
• 📸 Snapcraft

🆕 LocalXpose GitHub Action

✨ NEW: Test and preview without deployment! ✨

Our brand new GitHub Action lets you create secure tunnels right in your workflows. Perfect for:

• 🧪 Integration Testing - Test against external services without deploying
• 👀 Preview Deployments - Share PR previews instantly
• 🔗 Webhook Testing - Receive webhooks in your CI/CD pipeline
• 🚀 Zero Config - Works out of the box with your existing setup

- name: Start LocalXpose Tunnel
  uses: LocalXpose/localxpose-action@v1
  with:
    port: 3000
    subdomain: preview

Try it now → We'd love your feedback! 💬

🌟 Features Developers Love

• 🔒 Secure by Default - HTTPS tunnels with end-to-end encryption
• ⚡ Lightning Fast - Optimized for low latency
• 🎯 Custom Subdomains - Professional URLs for your projects
• 🌐 Multiple Protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and UDP support
• 📊 Real-time Analytics - Monitor traffic and performance
• 🔧 Developer Friendly - Simple CLI, comprehensive API
• 💪 Production-Grade - Built for high bandwidth and request volume
• 🛡️ Rock-Solid Reliability - Resilient infrastructure our customers depend on

💻 Quick Example

# Expose your local web server
loclx tunnel http --to localhost:3000

# Custom subdomain
loclx tunnel http --to 3000 --subdomain awesome
# -> (http, us) awesome.loclx.io => [running]

# TCP tunnel for databases, SSH, etc.
loclx tunnel tcp --to localhost:22 --port 2222

🤝 Open Source & Community

While our core tunneling service powers thousands of developers daily, we're committed to giving back to the community:

Our Open Source Projects

• ✨ localxpose-action - GitHub Action for seamless tunnel integration
• 📚 More tools and libraries coming soon!

We Support

• 💜 SaaS-UI - Proud sponsor of this amazing React component library

We're working on open-sourcing more of our tooling and libraries. Stay tuned! 🚀

🎉 Join the LocalXpose Community

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