Truly Responsive Web-development: Access localhost on a Mobile Device

Joseph Emswiler
3 min readFeb 1, 2021

Don’t live in a simulation

I know, I know… your web app looks ✨ pixel perfect ✨ when you test mobile responsiveness with the device simulator in Chrome DevTools (which — don’t get me wrong — is awesome), but even Google’s docs call Device Mode an “approximation” of how your app will render on a phone or tablet. And trust me… (if…

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Joseph Emswiler

Software engineer with experience in GovTech, FinTech, LegalTech, and HealthTech. Follow for stories about modern full stack web development.