Setting up Dev Server with HTTPS Proxy On Windows
Most apps are served via HTTP during development. With Storyblok v2, your app must be served in HTTPS proxy for your development server on Windows.
Install Chocolatey: a package manager for windows. You can view installation guides here.
Install mkcert for creating a valid certificate and install localhost with mkcert: Open your PowerShell as admin and run the commands below consecutively; make sure that Chocolatey
choco install mkcert // install mkcert mkcert --version // check the mkcert version
Add the proxy to your package.json scripts: Next, add the commands below to your package.json scripts
"proxy": "mkcert -install && mkcert localhost && local-ssl-proxy --source 3010 --target 3000 --cert localhost.pem --key localhost-key.pem"
Run the proxy with the command below:
yarn proxy
In a separate terminal, start your application by running
yarn dev
Add this to your project’s to gitignore
# HTTPS Proxy certificates
localhost.pem
localhost-key.pem