Webpack Dev Server running on HTTPS/Web Sockets Secure

Question

Normally in developer mode Webpack runs using HTTP. There is usually a web server serving content through HTTP and webpack using http/websockets on a separate port.

Answer 1

In my case I had to run all these commands to get the certificate:

openssl genrsa -out private.key 4096
openssl req -new -sha256 -out private.csr -key private.key
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in private.csr -signkey private.key -out private.crt -extensions req_ext
openssl x509 -in private.crt -out private.pem -outform PEM

And then finally:

npm run dev -- --open --https --cert private.pem --key private.key