feat: securing local dev server

_posts/2020-02-07-secure-dev-server.md

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+---
+title: Securing Local Dev Server
+---
+
+Sometimes you want to interact with a local webserver with https support because of some browser APIs that are only available in an https environment.
+
+You can easily create a self-signed TLS cert for development purposes with [`mkcert`](https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert).
+
+```shell
+brew install mkcert
+mkcert -install # Install the local CA in the OS keychain
+```
+
+After installing `mkcert` and generating system-wide local CA cert, you can create a certificate for each project.
+
+```
+cd awesome-website
+mkcert localhost # this will generate ./localhost.pem and ./localhost-key.pem
+npm install -g serve
+serve --ssl-cert ./localhost.pem --ssl-key ./localhost-key.pem
+```