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Don't use localhost:3000, use your own custom domain

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After presenting a demo of how an internal tool works, I was flooded with questions. Not about the tool, but about why I had bought a domain just to run the demo. "Why didn't you use the staging serve

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Don't use localhost:3000, use your own custom domain All the cool kids are doing it By Ibrahim Diallo Published 17 hours ago ~ 5 minutes read Fund this Blog After presenting a demo of how an internal tool works, I was flooded with questions. Not about the tool, but about why I had bought a domain just to run the demo. "Why didn't you use the staging server?" they asked. I was confused. I didn't buy a domain. I was running it locally. But instead of the URL being localhost:3002, it was a fully formed domain. www.internaltool.com. In fact, some people told me that they couldn't access the website on their devices. They thought I had to whitelist their IP to grant them access. To feel young again... Setting up a custom domain locally was common practice when I started web programming.

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