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Re:Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certi... by nailer on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:58AM (#17749225)
Still sounds good to me - it would do extra stuff like adding it to the Windows cert store if you're there, adding it to Firefox if you use it, etc. And being package it's better to collaborate on than everyone making their own process (and possibly screwing it up).

Since many people who run https://localhost are doing front end development node will probably already be there.

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Re:Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certi... by nickcox on Monday August 13, 2018 @07:19AM (#17749284)
If you're on Windows then you get creating a certificate and adding it to the cert store out of the box with PowerShell[0].

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/pkiclient...

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Re:Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certi... by nailer on Monday August 13, 2018 @12:52PM (#17751499)
That's really useful - and worth submitting as a separate post.
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Re:Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certi... by kodablah on Monday August 13, 2018 @12:24PM (#17751270)
> it would do extra stuff like adding it to the Windows cert store if you're there, adding it to Firefox if you use it, etc

This is what mkcert does (FF on Windows not done yet, but FF everywhere else and OS root store is).

> And being package it's better to collaborate on than everyone making their own process (and possibly screwing it up)

Not sure the difference between it being an npm package or a Go project on GitHub is that large. Or are you saying "go build" is easier to screw up than "npm install"?

EDIT: My mistake, misunderstood the context of the comment.

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Re:Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certi... by nailer on Monday August 13, 2018 @12:34PM (#17751361)
> This is what mkcert does

> Not sure the difference between it being an npm package or a Go project on GitHub is that large.

I know mkcert also does this. I also agree that other maintained projects are good too. My comment was in response was to it's parent, which reads:

> So you could use openssl commands and have actually less installation requirements.

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