Friday, August 07, 2020

mkcert - crafter's local cert

If you're a seasoned developer, you must know that local SSL .. err, TLS, configs on your local development environment is some sort of art. 

That happens because of the highly technical details of low level tooling like openssl, keytool and other PKI related details that makes the https protocol work. 

Today I discovered that life of a developer got a little bit easier, due to the work of Filippo, here's his article: https://blog.filippo.io/mkcert-valid-https-certificates-for-localhost/


An excellent tool that most probably will (if not already) be part of the full-stack developer's toolbox.