There are some apps which require you to use https, but what if you aren’t ready to deploy and are still working using localhost?

There are two packages to the rescue

• mkcert
• http-server

The first one is used to generate the certificate and key, the second one will serve our static files using the generated files.

Let’s do it.

First install mkcert by following instruction from github page.

Then run in your working directory following commands:

mkcert -install
mkcert localhost

The above will create localhost.pem and localhost-key.pem files in your directory.

Now it is time to use http-server.

To install globally run: npm install http-server -g

And in your directory with files you want to serve: http-server .\index.html -p 9025 --ssl -K .\localhost-key.pem -C .\localhost.pem

The above will serve your index.html file on port 9025 with ssl on using key localhost-key.pem and certificate localhost.pem.

Now you can go to https://localhost:9025