mkdev: trusted HTTPS for localhost, mapped by name (opens in new tab)
Plain HTTP on localhost breaks things. OAuth callbacks want Secure cookies won't set, service workers won't register, and some SDKs just assume TLS. Self-signed certs get you back to the "Proceed (unsafe)" click. mkcert solves the cert half well, but it stops at handing you a .pem and a key — you still wire that into every dev server and track which port is which. mkdev sits one layer up. You give a route a name, you get trusted HTTPS at that name. mkdev install # generate a local CA, trust i...
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