create-react-app: how to use https instead of http?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knows how to use https on dev for the \'create-react-app\' environment. I can\'t see anything about that in the README or quick googling. I just wa

Answer 1

In Windows environment add following lines to package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "start-dev": "set HTTPS=true&&set PORT=443&&react-scripts start"
  },

It will start development server with https and port 443. At the present moment NodeJs have known bug to run this correctly but it worked with nodeJs v8.11.3 - https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.11.3/node-v8.11.3-x64.msi for me.