The ngrok blog

Today, ngrok is growing faster than ever. To meet that increasing demand, we’re thrilled to announce our first-ever fundraising round of $50 million. We’ve raised this round to scale ngrok’s business across the board and to dramatically increase our investment in delivering new products for ngrok developers.

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Webhooks enable us to react to changes like text messages, successful payments, or pull requests. Few pay attention to their design, security or controls.

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Sign in to ngrok easier with SSO

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I've worked with OAuth 2.0 for over 6 years. It's always been a complex and challenging beast to fight until now.

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We’re excited to announce that we have successfully completed the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 testing with no findings. Read more for more information.

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Securing your environment is challenging. With ngrok, you can centralize management to ensure policies are applied consistently, no matter the stack.

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While ngrok has made it easy to launch your fantastic new app online in one line, bad actors have also used this capability to launch their own attacks. Blocking and eliminating this malicious behavior is key to what we do and we've taken another step to protect users without breaking legitimate applications.

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Add authentication to any ngrok endpoint in minutes with Traffic Policy. Choose Basic Auth, OAuth login, OpenID Connect, or JWT validation, no code required.

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In this post, we navigate some of the best practices, key considerations, and features provided by ngrok for production scenarios

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ngrok Secure Tunnels. With one command share your apps, APIs, and systems with the world, without complex network configuration, reliability issues, and NAT.

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From the earliest webhooks at Twilio to every major SaaS platform, webhooks have become a defacto standard in web development. But before we can use them well, we have to use them correctly. Let's look at what that takes.

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We can be "Happier with Zapier" and get rid of repetitive tasks like updating spreadsheets. Check out what we can automate by adding ngrok and a remote API.

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Learn how to set up and manage ngrok tunnels straight from VS Code. If you want to do the same, grab your VS Code and follow along.

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Easily test code – i.e. trigger a webhook or API request from a service or load certain pages as a user.

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What can you tunnel with ngrok? More and more, a better question is: What can't you tunnel with ngrok?

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