Creates a proxy to your HTTP app with HTTPS, using provided certificate files. This is designed as a convenience.

You'll need to generate a self-signed certificiate, or one from a locally trusted CA.

The mkcert package, available on Homebrew, is very easy to use.

1. Ensure you have Homebrew installed.
2. Run brew install mkcert nss. mkcert will create the certificate. nss will get Firefox to recognize it. (Other browsers will recognize it automatically.)
3. Change to the directory where you'd like to save the certificates. I recommend a /certificates directory in your project.
4. Run mkcert localhost.
5. Ensure that the two generated files, localhost.pem and localhost-key.pem, are ignored in your source control.

Contributions welcome!

In parallel with your development environment, run this as follows:

https-cert-proxy --cert path/to/localhost.pem --key path/to/localhost-key.pem

I find it easiest to have these scripts in my package.json, using the package concurrently:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "concurrently -n w: npm:dev-*",
    "dev-web": "YOUR CURRENT DEV SCRIPT",
    "dev-ssl": "https-cert-proxy --cert path/to/localhost.pem --key path/to/localhost-key.pem"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "concurrently": "^5.1.0",
    "https-cert-proxy": "^0.0.1"
  }
}

Copyright (c) 2020 Todd Dukart. Licensed under the BSD-3-Clause.