create-ssl-certificate

Command line tool to create self signed SSL certificate

NOTE! This only works on MAC! Based on the following amazing GIST.

Create

In the folder of your project use the NPM executer:

npx create-ssl-certificate

This will create a certificate for the domain: FOLDER_NAME.dev and any subdomain.

Options

Hostname

npx create-ssl-certificate --hostname myproject

This will create a certificate for the domain: myproject.dev and any subdomain.

Domain

npx create-ssl-certificate --hostname myproject --domain test

This will create a certificate for the domain: myproject.test and any subdomain.

Requirement

You will need to install dnsmasq which will route your domain to localhost. You can install it via homebrew.

brew install dnsmasq

Note! Make sure you follow the instructions to start the service when your mac boots up.

To route all domain lookups to localhost you will have to add configuration. Replace dev in both echo commands if you chose a different domain.

mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc
sudo mkdir -pv /etc/resolver
echo "address=/.dev/127.0.0.1" | sudo tee -a $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" | sudo tee /etc/resolver/dev