Locking Down your Dev Environment with Webpack DevServer and mkcert

I probably don't need to try that hard to explain why it's important to make the effort to enable HTTPS on your websites. It's encrypted thereby helps to secure data that travels across the wire. This security gets you other benefits, including custo...

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M S Sripati

Experience ISMS Implementer, Auditor, Managing Pentesters, can hack and code as well. Blogger, 32K+ views on Quora

Dec 26, 2021

Nice article.

What are your thoughts on using Let's Encrypt?

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Andrew Grass

Full Stack Web Developer

Jan 10, 2022

I like Let's Encrypt, however the two are used for different purposes. Let's Encrypt helps you generate real trusted certs whereas mkcert is used for testing and local development. So for the purposes of securing a dev environment, generating a cert using Let's Encrypt is probably overkill.

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