Traefik and local serving with TLS

I have developed a patten for local web development that I really like that gives me a few features that you can probably get with some full stack toolchain, but I’ve cobbled together out of a collection of open source components instead. It gives me TLS termination, nice domain names, and 100% local networking. I alluded to it indirectly in my last post about RFC 6761 domain names but I thought it worth expanding here. First, there are two software components that are relevant: traefik and mkcert . It takes a bit of setup for each of them, but when you’re done you’ll be able to navigate in your browser to https://<your-project>.dev.localhost and access whatever you’re working on, with no certificate warnings or anything else. install and enable traefik ¶ Traefik is a modern web server that is particularly popular in the container ecosystem, but it also acts as an excellent reverse proxy. I installed it from homebrew, and am running it with brew services : $ brew install traefik $…

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