When you start the CLI the services are exposed similarly to the way they are exposed in the cloud. For instance, the following information is shown on your terminal after running nhost up

> nhost up
...
URLs:
- Postgres:             postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/local
- Hasura:               https://local.hasura.local.nhost.run
- GraphQL:              https://local.graphql.local.nhost.run
- Auth:                 https://local.auth.local.nhost.run
- Storage:              https://local.storage.local.nhost.run
- Functions:            https://local.functions.local.nhost.run
- Dashboard:            https://local.dashboard.local.nhost.run
- Mailhog:              https://local.mailhog.local.nhost.run

SDK Configuration:
 Subdomain:             local
 Region:                local

There you can see the various URLs you can use to access each service plus the region and subdomain you can use to configure the SDK:

// Create a new Nhost client for local development.
const nhost = new NhostClient(
    { region: 'local', subdomain: 'local' }
)

The domains in the URLs above will all return the IP address for localhost, 127.0.0.1, which should suffice for most development environments. For instance:

> host local.auth.local.nhost.run
local.auth.local.nhost.run has address 127.0.0.1

However, those URLs are powered by a dynamic DNS that can return any IPv4 address you need, you just need to replace the subdomain local with a subdomain that contains the 4 octets of the IPv4 address you want separated by -. For instance:

> host 192-168-100-1.auth.local.nhost.run
192-168-100-1.auth.local.nhost.run has address 192.168.100.1

> host 10-10-1-108.auth.local.nhost.run
10-10-1-108.auth.local.nhost.run has address 10.10.1.108

This is useful if you need to connect to your environment from a different device, a VM or a mobile device emulator.

Some ISPs filter DNS responses that point to localhost and/or private IP space. If your provider is one of them you may have troubles accessing your local dev environment. As a workaround you have two options:

  1. Follow the instructions under offline access to create static DNS entries in your machine.
  2. Configure your computer to use a different DNS provider.

To make use of this functionality you can start your development environment after setting the environment variable NHOST_LOCAL_SUBDOMAIN or passing the flag --local-subdomain :

> export NHOST_LOCAL_SUBDOMAIN=192-168-1-1-8 # either this or --local-subdomain 192-168-1-108
> nhost --local-subdomain 192-168-1-108 up
...
Nhost development environment started.
URLs:
- Postgres:         postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/local
- Hasura:           https://192-168-1-108.hasura.local.nhost.run
- GraphQL:          https://192-168-1-108.graphql.local.nhost.run
- Auth:             https://192-168-1-108.auth.local.nhost.run
- Storage:          https://192-168-1-108.storage.local.nhost.run
- Functions:        https://192-168-1-108.functions.local.nhost.run
- Dashboard:        https://192-168-1-108.dashboard.local.nhost.run
- Mailhog:          https://192-168-1-108.mailhog.local.nhost.run

SDK Configuration:
 Subdomain:    192-168-1-108
 Region:       local
Run `nhost up` to reload the development environment
Run `nhost down` to stop the development environment
Run `nhost logs` to watch the logs

Now you can configure the SDK with:

// Create a new Nhost client for local development.
const nhost = new NhostClient(
    { region: 'local', subdomain: '192-168-1-108' }
)

If you are trying to connect to your local environment from an external device or VM make sure that:

  • The IP address you are using is reachable from this device/VM
  • That your firewall isn’t blocking requests

If you are testing a social provider don’t forget you will need to configure the callback URL to match the subdomain/region you are using. The dashboard should be able to provide this information in settings page.

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Offline access

All the URLs in this document are resolved by a public DNS, which means you need Internet access to resolve them. If you need to use any of those URLs without Internet access you can add them to your /etc/hosts file. For instance:

> cat /etc/hosts
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
# ::1             localhost

127.0.0.1 local.auth.local.nhost.run local.storage.local.nhost.run ...

Just start with the IP you want to resolve followed by all the entries you need separated by spaces.

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