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

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        choco install mkcert // install mkcert
  mkcert --version // check the mkcert version
      

  IMPORTANT:

  For some users, install local-ssl-proxy package globally on your windows machine, as adding it to package.json script might not work.

• Add the proxy to your package.json scripts: Next, add the commands below to your package.json scripts

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        "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:

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        yarn proxy 
      

• In a separate terminal, start your application by running

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        yarn dev
      

# HTTPS Proxy certificates
localhost.pem
localhost-key.pem