alt Hacker Newswe need a way to access locally running web apps without doing an ugly http://localhost:8022 and having to remember that.
I'd say http://localapps should give an overview of all web apps running locally, with links to them. Those links should follow a naming scheme where the hostname ends with `.local` or smth.
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fc417fc802 • today at 10:32 AM
Won't that be cluttered by various random processes listening via 0/0? Perhaps we need a standardized service that web apps can register with.
Hah, I was dealing with this problem today.
My approach: Add entries for my localhost apps to `/etc/hosts`, and set up nginx as a reverse proxy.
Now when I go to `http://myapp.local` in the browser, `/etc/hosts` tells it to go to `localhost:80`. The http server sitting there knows which port to send the request to. I also made a systemd service that starts nginx automatically.
Now I have meaningful URLs for local apps, and I don't have to remember which one is listening on which port.