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Use Caddy, mkcert and dnsmasq to expose your development server over HTTPS
brew install caddy mkcert nss dnsmasq
mkcert -install
mkcert '*.app.test' '*.cdn.test'
# rename the certs and move them under /usr/local/etc/caddy/certs
cat <<EOF > /usr/local/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
*.app.test:443, *.cdn.test:443 {
tls /usr/local/etc/caddy/certs/dev.pem /usr/local/etc/caddy/certs/dev-key.pem
gzip
proxy / localhost:3000 {
transparent
}
}
EOF
cat <<EOF >> /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
port=53
address=/.test/127.0.0.1
EOF
sudo echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/test
sudo brew services start dnsmasq
scutil --dns
# dnsmasq setup is successful if you see an entry for test domain like this:
# resolver #8
# domain : test
# nameserver[0] : 127.0.0.1
# flags : Request A records, Request AAAA records
# reach : 0x00030002 (Reachable,Local Address,Directly Reachable Address)
sudo caddy -conf /usr/local/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
# optional: configure launchd to have caddy run on startup
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