i understand the case where you don't have a box with e.g. port 80 available and need to use their server as an endpoint, but otherwise is it really that hard to remember ssh -L and -R syntax as the article suggests?

i also don't really see where you'd need to tunnel and serve production traffic from your dev machine versus having a proper staging environment and testing there. that has "bad idea" written all over it.

> we’re all starting to see the benefits of having a production-like environment right there on your laptop so you can iteratively code and debug your app without deploying live, or even needing the Internet.

actually, real professionals have seen these benefits for ages. that is SOP for good programmers.