Have you ever wanted to test your local APIs from your mobile device? Well, you can't just use localhost, you need a real URL for your APIs, but you don't want to deploy an API just to test it. That is where Dev Tunnels come in to save the day and create a public URL to test those APIs and tunnel it to your machine.

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

00:45 - App walkthrough & localhost issues

03:30 - Create a Dev Tunnel in Visual Studio 2022

06:50 - Create a Dev Tunnel with the CLI

08:50 - Wrap-up

Resources:

Dev Tunnels: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/developer/dev-tunnels/

Dev Tunnels in Visual Studio: https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/test/dev-tunnels

Docs on localhost cleartext: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/data-cloud/local-web-services

iOS Hot Restart: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/ios/hot-restart

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