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**Fundamentals**

# **Demoing your website**

How to expose your local web server to the internet without public IP or router changes

Once in a while there is a need to share your work-in-progress website, built on technologies like [NextJS](https://nextjs.org/), [Nuxt](https://nuxt.com/), [hugo](https://gohugo.io/) or any other framework, tool, etc..

Sometimes it is way too early in the development cycle to set up automated (or not) deployment just to get some feedback; this is where tunnels come in. In this example we will run a local NextJS server. I will create an example app with:

```
npx create-next-app@latest \
  nextjs-blog \
  --use-npm \
  --example "https://github.com/vercel/next-learn/tree/main/basics/learn-starter"
```

and start it

```
cd nextjs-blog
npm run dev
```

I can view it on `http://localhost:3000`:

![nextjs starter server](https://webhookrelay.com/docs/tunnels/demoing-your-website/images/docs/tunnels/nextjs.png)

This is running on my local machine, and I want to share it with my friends. Now, to expose it to the internet, I can use the following command:

```
relay connect --name my-tunnel http://localhost:3000
```

These commands have to be run in two separate terminal windows:

![running commands](https://webhookrelay.com/docs/tunnels/demoing-your-website/images/docs/tunnels/commands.png)

Click on the link in the terminal to open the browser and view the website:

![nextjs starter server](https://webhookrelay.com/docs/tunnels/demoing-your-website/images/docs/tunnels/nextjs-tunnel.png)

That's it!

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