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HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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JavaScript APIs That Don't Work Unless You Have a Secure Context

Local host is considered a secure context, even though it's HTTP. The browser treats it as so because it knows that it's running on your local machine locally. A lot of the JavaScript APIs don't work unless you're on a secure context. So you have to use something that gives you HTTPS.

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