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A zero-conf development server to static files over HTTPS, in the mold of Python's SimpleHTTPServer.

Installation & Usage:

Prereqs: Node >8 and OpenSSL

1. Install: npm install static-https-server -g
2. cd to the directory with your static files.
3. Run static-https-server

Features:

• Zero config: just run static-https-server in the directory with your static files and navigate to localhost:9000. Because the certs it uses are self signed, you'll need to tell your browser that they're trusted.
• Zero dependency: Uses only core Node libraries and sys calls to OpenSSL.
• Trust-Once: The certificates generated by static-https-server are valid for 48 hours. If you ran the app <24 hours ago, it will use those existing certificates. This prevents you from needing to trust new certificates every time you start the server.

Options:

You can specify the port for the server to listen on by passing an argument like this: static-https-server 9001. You can set options for Certificate Signing Requests (such as Common Name, Country, etc. ) by editing the config.txt file in the certs folder.

Thanks: The static file server code was inspired heavily by this StackOverflow answer and I used this guide to walk through adding SSL.

Disclaimer: Don't use this for anything other than local development, obviously.