lcl.host

Hey Hunters! All of us here at Anchor are absolutely stoked to be releasing lcl.host, a new developer tool, to all of you absolutely free! 🚀 lcl.host is the absolute fastest ⚡️ and easiest 😌 way to get HTTPS setup in your development environment 🖥️. Once the Anchor CLI toolchain is installed simply run `anchor lcl` from the root of your application/project/service and we take care of the rest. It is truly that easy, give it a try for yourself. In a terminal run `brew install anchordotdev/tap/anchor` and `anchor lcl` from the root of your project. The toolchain automatically handles the following for you: ✅ Configures your local certificate stores to trust Anchor-provided certificates from your account, and your account only. ✅ Detects the application name and language/server type, then provisions the application's service and resources through Anchor's API. ✅ Provisions a certificate for your app (or service), and writes the certificate and key pair to files in your application directory. You can then use this certificate to manually enable HTTPS/TLS in your development environment. ✅ Adds WebPKI-quality certificates to your filesystem that are specific to your app or service. ✅ Finally, the Anchor Setup Guide shows you a few easy steps to set up and use ACME for future certificate provisioning. So you don’t have to ❌ configure DNS ❌ edit /etc/hosts ❌ run complicated openssl commands ❌ worry about expiring certificates ❌ manage local truststores This is my dev environment, which doesn’t have any sensitive data in it, should I really run HTTPS locally? While dev/prod parity should be enough to want to run HTTPS locally (i.e. you want your browser to run in a truly secure context, always) there are a number of reasons that you might be required to run HTTPS while in development! Mixed Content ⚠️ CORS Errors ⛔️ HTTP/2👩‍💻 Secure Cookies 🍪 OAuth and secure 3rd Party endpoints 🎁 Localhost Apps and Marketplaces 💹 Requirement for tools 🔨 📣 We really appreciate any feedback you have for us. What do you want to see next from the team? 🎉 To celebrate our launch we’ll be giving a special, hand-crafted, gift to a limited number of early adopters!

I'll definitely need this in the future. it will help me test webhooks with Stripe and other providers so I can avoid using the Stripe CLI during development!

This is great! There is always a point where this becomes an issue 😅 awesome to have a simple and fast solution. Thanks for this!

Awesome. Setting up local SSL is a time-consuming but unavoidable pain... can't wait for the windows version! Any roadmap to that release? Congrats on the launch!

@stolt45 Congrats on the launch! Likely a little outside of my wheelhouse but I do like the UI and clarity of the platform - seems like a sound dev tool - always nice to not have to configure the DNS - that much I know haha!

Let's go Chris! 🚀

Congratulations team! I appreciate the effort put into creating lcl.host for seamless HTTPS setup in local dev environments. It's a game-changer for developers looking to streamline their workflow securely and effortlessly.