User Guide: Instant Domain with Vortex

Vortex allows you create an instant domain for testing a chatbot in Discord, demoing a new website, or a number of other things. It is simple, but I am going to walk you through the process step-by-step. If you haven’t already, go to APIVortex.com and sign up.

1. Create a Custom Domain

In the top right corner, click “Add New Site” and type in the name of your custom domain. We are using the name example as our domain. Click Instant Domain and Apply Changes, and you now have a ready-to-use site.

Vortex handles both HTTPS and HTTP traffic

2. Download the Vortex Client

A. In the menu on the left, click Expose a local web server and download the Vortex Shell.

Change your directory to where you downloaded Vortex.

• NOTE: If the download is showing Vortex as a document on a Mac use chmod +x vortex to make it executable.

chmod +x vortex 

Click Open to allow permissions when opening the download. After Vortex opens the first time, close the terminal.

3. Run Vortex Shell

Open a new terminal window and run Vortex. Here is the syntax from our example site:

./vortex — site example.app.vtxhub.com — port 8080 — host localhost

Log in to Vortex.

4. Serve Your Localhost

Start your code in your IDE or run your app on localhost with the proper port specified in the previous step (example from above is 8080)

In our example, we are using a simple node app so we serve node start.js that is in a folder we called Source.

Hit Your Domain!

Open a browser and hit your new domain!