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Local development on Internet Explorer testing on Mac. Vagrant or virtual box makes having the IE VM free and easy to get up and running. Ngrok is the key for easily connecting the VM to your local dev
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| 1) First step is downloading a virtual machine with Internet Explorer | |
| link=https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ | |
| Select your virtual machine in the drop down | |
| NOTE: I am going to choose IE on Win81 | |
| Then select the platform | |
| NOTE: VirtualBox and Vagrant are free but I have found VirtualBox is easier to get up and running | |
| If you would like to download virtual box here is a direct link | |
| https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.8/VirtualBox-6.0.8-130520-OSX.dmg | |
| If you would like to download vagrant here is a link | |
| https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.4/vagrant_2.2.4_x86_64.dmg | |
| With vagrant it is easier to manage with vagrant manager | |
| https://github.com/lanayotech/vagrant-manager/releases | |
| 2) Now that the IE VM is downloaded, install it and make sure you are able to connect to the internet | |
| 3) Next create an account on Ngrok https://dashboard.ngrok.com/ | |
| NOTE: This is the secret to connecting the VM to your local development (ie: localhost:3000) | |
| 4) Download and install Ngrok | |
| NOTE: It's easiest to download into your home directory | |
| 5) Now that we have Ngrok and IE VM installed start your local development | |
| My local developmen is running on http://localhost:8100 so to run ngrok I wil use the following | |
| ~/ngrok http 8100 -host-header="localhost:8100" | |
| NOTE: Ngrok will provide the forwarding url example: http://28214884.ngrok.io | |
| 6) In the IE VM past the forwarding url into IE address bar and you should now see localhost:8100 within IE on the VM | |
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