Discussion on: Running SSL on localhost

[Rémy 🤖]

Other method:

1. Get a domain, let's say foobar.com
2. Get a wildcard for *.foobar.com
3. Setup a local nginx (on port 443) with that certificate on all vhosts
4. For each project, create a vhost that proxies back to your app. Say app1.foobar.com is a proxy to localhost:4000
5. Add 127.0.0.1 app1.foobar.com to your /etc/hosts

[Nico]

Now this is a nerdy, overcomplicated solution that I like.

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

Let's Encrypt makes this pretty easy, and free. What I usually do is have localhost.foobar.com resolve to 127.0.0.1, and either have a Let's Encrypt wildcard cert, or a cert specifically for localhost.foobar.com