Replace domain with a local address for development
Users
7
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#224K
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Version
1.0
updated 14 May 2025
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monthly, 17 months
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About GoLocal
This extension was built to solve a very specific annoyance I encountered while developing certain types of web applications:
When working locally and testing a feature that requires a redirect to a predefined URL (not localhost), I found myself having to edit the URL in my browser to keep all the newly added path and parameters, but replace the host/domain with localhost to continue debugging.
This extension might only be handy for web developers who encounter this scenario, but it essentially let's you "swap" the domain/host of any website with another value that you define.
For example, you can swap
"https://www.some-app.xyz/path/page?param=value"
with:
"http://localhost:1234/path/page?param=value"
If you're not sure if this would be helpful, then you probably don't need it! :)