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Alright, I'm gonna need some help from more experienced devs.

tldr: how does my sister test my website if she can't run it?

I'm making a site (for myself, I've talked about this in other rants, most likely won't go online so I don't want to spend money on this), and my sister is helping me with the sales part of the project. It's basicaly a web store.

In a couple of months, she is going to have a baby, and will stay at home for 5 months. Since she helped me with it, and I don't really know all of the steps that go into online purchasing (she kind of works with this, and makes a lot of online purchases, from everyone I know she was the best person to go to), we want her to test it while she's at home with the baby, just in case I missed or didn't understand something.

The problem is: she doesn't understant anything about programing and probably never seen a command line, and since this is laravel, I will need to install a lot of things in her computer, which will be useless for her after she is done, and teach her some commands to run the site.
Also, like I said, i don't want to spend money on this, since she will only make a few tests and that's it, it would go offline after.

She is smart, she could probably do this, so if there is no way of doing this is ok, but if there is it would save her a lot of time while testing and with the baby, and save me my time at work.

I would want something like git, but where I could run the site without a lot of steps.

Does anyone know how she can test it? Is there even a way?
Thank you in advance 😁

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  • 3
    Install docker on her computer package your site up as a container push it to your 1 free private repo. Install kitematic and i think she can just click to run from the docker for windows thing presuming she is on Windows. Then when your done you can just uninstall docker and it’s all gone
  • 5
    If 👆 is to difficult you could port forward you're laptop to the internet and use you're ip to access it
  • 2
    Maybe take a look into ngrok? I've never tried it but that might do exactly what you want
  • 2
    Ngrok is definitely the way to go.

    Or even this - http://localhost.run/

    Don't even have to register just run a command in git bash/terminal.
  • 1
    This is the duh easy probably in some way flawed solution but maybe replicate it to another machine and run team viewer and get her to connect via that?
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