@ngrok/ngrok
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The ngrok agent in library form, suitable for integrating directly into your NodeJS application.
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Javascript SDK for ngrok
ngrok-javascript
is the official Node.js SDK for ngrok that requires no binaries. Quickly enable secure production-ready connectivity to your applications and services directly from your code.
ngrok is a globally distributed gateway that provides secure connectivity for applications and services running in any environment.
Installation
Using npm:
npm install @ngrok/ngrok
Using yarn:
yarn add @ngrok/ngrok
Using pnpm:
pnpm add @ngrok/ngrok
Quickstart
Export your authtoken from the ngrok dashboard as
NGROK_AUTHTOKEN
in your terminalAdd the following code to your application to establish connectivity via the forward method through port
8080
overlocalhost
:// Require ngrok javascript sdk const ngrok = require("@ngrok/ngrok"); // import ngrok from '@ngrok/ngrok' // if inside a module (async function() { // Establish connectivity const listener = await ngrok.forward({ addr: 8080, authtoken_from_env: true }); // Output ngrok url to console console.log(`Ingress established at: ${listener.url()}`); })(); process.stdin.resume();
That's it! Your application should now be available through the url output in your terminal.
Note You can find more examples in the examples directory.
Documentation
A quickstart guide and a full API reference are included in the ngrok-javascript documentation.
Authorization
To use ngrok you'll need an authtoken. To obtain one, sign up for free at ngrok.com and retrieve it from the authtoken page of your ngrok dashboard. Once you have copied your authtoken, you can reference it in several ways.
You can set it in the NGROK_AUTHTOKEN
environment variable and pass authtoken_from_env: true
to the forward method:
await ngrok.forward({ authtoken_from_env: true, ... });
Or pass the authtoken directly to the forward method:
await ngrok.forward({ authtoken: token, ... });
Or set it for all connections with the authtoken method:
await ngrok.authtoken(token);
Connection
The forward method is the easiest way to start an ngrok session and establish a listener to a specified address. The forward method returns a promise that resolves to the public URL of the listener.
With no arguments the forward method will start an HTTP listener to localhost
port 80
:
const ngrok = require("@ngrok/ngrok");
// import ngrok from '@ngrok/ngrok' // if inside a module
(async function() {
console.log( (await ngrok.forward()).url() );
})();
You can pass the port number to forward on localhost
:
const listener = await ngrok.forward(4242);
Or you can specify the host and port via a string:
const listener = await ngrok.forward("localhost:4242");
More options can be passed to the forward
method to customize the connection:
const listener = await ngrok.forward({ addr: 8080, basic_auth: "ngrok:online1line" });
const listener = await ngrok.forward({ addr: 8080, oauth_provider: "google", oauth_allow_domains: "example.com" });
The (optional) proto
parameter is the listener type, which defaults to http
. To create a TCP listener:
const listener = await ngrok.forward({ proto: 'tcp', addr: 25565 });
See Full Configuration for the list of possible configuration options.
Disconnection
The close method on a listener will shut it down, and also stop the ngrok session if it is no longer needed. This method returns a promise that resolves when the listener is closed.
const listener = await ngrok.getListenerByUrl(url);
await listener.close();
Or use the disconnect method with the url()
of the listener to close (or id() for a Labeled Listener):
await ngrok.disconnect(listener.url());
Or omit the url()
to close all listeners:
await ngrok.disconnect();
Listing Listeners
To list all current non-closed listeners use the listeners method:
const listeners = await ngrok.listeners();
Builders
For more control over Sessions and Listeners, the builder classes can be used.
A minimal example using the builder class looks like the following:
async function create_listener() {
const session = await new ngrok.NgrokSessionBuilder().authtokenFromEnv().connect();
const listener = await session.httpEndpoint().listen();
console.log("Ingress established at:", listener.url());
listener.forward("localhost:8081");
}
See here for a Full Configuration Example
TLS Backends
As of version 0.7.0
there is backend TLS connection support, validated by a filepath specified in the SSL_CERT_FILE
environment variable, or falling back to the host OS installed trusted certificate authorities. So it is now possible to do this to forward:
await ngrok.forward({ addr: "https://127.0.0.1:3000", authtoken_from_env: true });
If the service is using certs not trusted by the OS, such as self-signed certificates, add an environment variable like this before running: SSL_CERT_FILE=/path/to/ca.crt
. There is also a verify_upstream_tls: false
option to disable certification verification.
Async Programming
All methods return a Promise
and are suitable for use in asynchronous
programming. You can use callback chaining with .then()
and .catch()
syntax
or the await
keyword to wait for completion of an API call.
Error Handling
All asynchronous functions will throw an error on failure to set up a session or listener, which can be caught and dealt with using try/catch or then/catch statements:
new ngrok.NgrokSessionBuilder().authtokenFromEnv().connect()
.then((session) => {
session.httpEndpoint().listen()
.then((tun) => {})
.catch(err => console.log('listener setup error: ' + err))
})
.catch(err => console.log('session setup error: ' + err))
.await;
Full Configuration
This example shows all the possible configuration items of ngrok.forward:
const listener = await ngrok.forward({
// session configuration
addr: `localhost:8080`, // or `8080` or `unix:${UNIX_SOCKET}`
authtoken: "<authtoken>",
authtoken_from_env: true,
on_status_change: (addr, error) => {
console.log(`disconnected, addr ${addr} error: ${error}`);
},
session_metadata: "Online in One Line",
// advanced session connection configuration
server_addr: "example.com:443",
root_cas: "trusted",
session_ca_cert: fs.readFileSync("ca.pem", "utf8"),
// listener configuration
metadata: "example listener metadata from javascript",
domain: "<domain>",
proto: "http",
proxy_proto: "", // One of: "", "1", "2"
schemes: ["HTTPS"],
labels: "edge:edghts_2G...", // Along with proto="labeled"
app_protocol: "http2",
// module configuration
basic_auth: ["ngrok:online1line"],
circuit_breaker: 0.1,
compression: true,
allow_user_agent: "^mozilla.*",
deny_user_agent: "^curl.*",
ip_restriction_allow_cidrs: ["0.0.0.0/0"],
ip_restriction_deny_cidrs: ["10.1.1.1/32"],
crt: fs.readFileSync("crt.pem", "utf8"),
key: fs.readFileSync("key.pem", "utf8"),
mutual_tls_cas: [fs.readFileSync('ca.crt', 'utf8')],
oauth_provider: "google",
oauth_allow_domains: ["<domain>"],
oauth_allow_emails: ["<email>"],
oauth_scopes: ["<scope>"],
oauth_client_id: "<id>",
oauth_client_secret: "<secret>",
oidc_issuer_url: "<url>",
oidc_client_id: "<id>",
oidc_client_secret: "<secret>",
oidc_allow_domains: ["<domain>"],
oidc_allow_emails: ["<email>"],
oidc_scopes: ["<scope>"],
traffic_policy: "<policy_json>",
request_header_remove: ["X-Req-Nope"],
response_header_remove: ["X-Res-Nope"],
request_header_add: ["X-Req-Yup:true"],
response_header_add: ["X-Res-Yup:true"],
verify_upstream_tls: false,
verify_webhook_provider: "twilio",
verify_webhook_secret: "asdf",
websocket_tcp_converter: true,
});
The Config interface also shows all the available options.
Examples
Degit can be used for cloning and running an example directory like this:
npx degit github:ngrok/ngrok-javascript/examples/<example> <folder-name>
cd <folder-name>
npm i
For example:
npx degit github:ngrok/ngrok-javascript/examples/express express && cd express && npm i
Frameworks
- AWS App Runner
- Express
- Fastify Example
- Hapi Example
- Koa Example
- Nest.js
- Next.js
- Remix
- Svelte
- Typescript
- Vue
- Winston (Logging)
Listeners
- ngrok.forward (minimal)
- ngrok.forward (full)
- HTTP (ngrok.listener)
- HTTP (SessionBuilder minimal)
- HTTP (SessionBuilder full)
- Labeled
- TCP
- TLS
- Windows Pipe
Platform Support
Pre-built binaries are provided on NPM for the following platforms:
| OS | i686 | x64 | aarch64 | arm | | ---------- | -----|-----|---------|-----| | Windows | ✓ | ✓ | * | | | MacOS | | ✓ | ✓ | | | Linux | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Linux musl | | ✓ | ✓ | | | FreeBSD | | ✓ | | | | Android | | | ✓ | ✓ |
Note
ngrok-javascript
, and ngrok-rust which it depends on, are open source, so it may be possible to build them for other platforms.On Windows, ensure you have Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable installed.
Windows-aarch64
will be supported after the next release of Ring.
Dependencies
- NAPI-RS, an excellent system to ease development and building of Rust plugins for NodeJS.
Changelog
Changes to ngrok-javascript
are tracked under CHANGELOG.md.
Join the ngrok Community
- Check out our official docs
- Read about updates on our blog
- Open an issue or pull request
- Join our Slack community
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License
This work is dual-licensed under Apache, Version 2.0 and MIT. You can choose between one of them if you use this work.
Contributions
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in ngrok-javascript
by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.