Browse PWA in mobile

Question

So I was exploring PWAs today and followed Your First Progressive Web App. It takes 5 mins and works on my laptop but the problem is, I can't figure out how to browse it through my phone yet. So I searched and found How can I access my localhost from my Android device? But unfortunately, the answers provided there don't work for me.

Why would that be? Does PWA require some different kind of setup? Am I going all wrong about this? Adiitionally I couldn't find any tutorials that take you to actually browsing your PWA in a mobile. Why?

Answer 1

While the Your First Progressive Web App tutorial tells you to start a server in your localhost. So as mentioned by @Anand, you won't be able to simply access the PWA in your phone.

The most simple solution is to use ngrok. Using it will expose a public URL for your web app which you can access in any device you want.

Simply install ngrok from here and follow through. Cheers ;)