lcl.host

Name: lcl.host
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Get HTTPS in your local dev environment

5.0•1 review•

276 followers

Get HTTPS in your local dev environment

5.0•1 review•

276 followers

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The fastest and easiest way to get HTTPS in your local development environment, lcl.host gives you browser trusted HTTPS certificates for your web apps in development. The CLI tool handles all setup & system configuration in seconds, and guides you through application setup instructions based on your language and framework. Supports JavaScript, Next.js, Python, Django, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Go apps, with more to come.

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Launch tags:Developer Tools•Encryption

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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!

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2yr ago

lcl.host

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@victoria_wu Easy as pie ;-)

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2yr ago

Visla

@stolt45 Nicely done, good job, and can't beat the price! Wish you all the success!

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2yr ago

@stolt45 can we connect on likedin

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2yr ago

@stolt45 Congrats on the launch, Chris.

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2yr ago

lcl.host

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@mogabr Thanks, Gabe.

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2yr ago

350+ E-Commerce Tools Database

💡 Bright idea

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!

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2yr ago

lcl.host

Maker

Thanks @anthony_latona! Windows support is at the top of our roadmap. Coming soon!

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2yr ago

350+ E-Commerce Tools Database

@benburkert nice! I'll be back for that launch for sure :)

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2yr ago

Go Mail Merge

💡 Bright idea

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!

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2yr ago

lcl.host

Maker

@kingromstar Thanks, Rami. lcl.host doesn't currently support ingress to your dev environment. But sounds like that'd be something you need?

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2yr ago

Web3 Antivirus for Chrome

Hey Chris, Congratulations on launching lcl.host! It sounds like a game-changer for developers looking to streamline their HTTPS setup. The way you've automated the process eliminates so much hassle. I can see how avoiding the manual configuration of DNS and certificate truststores can save a ton of time. Out of curiosity, how does lcl.host handle certificate renewals? Does it automate that process as well? Cheers to your launch, and I'm excited to see what's next for Anchor!

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2yr ago

lcl.host

Maker

hi @alex_dulub, we do automate the certificate renewal process. We support ACME (a standardized API for provisioning & renewing certificates) and our setup guide instructions show you how to integrate an ACME client into your app server so that automatic renewals happen periodically.

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2yr ago

voam

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

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2yr ago

lcl.host

Maker

@jopie Thanks, Joep 😀 Let us know if you have any feedback or need a hand with anything.

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2yr ago

voam

@stolt45 Will do!

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2yr ago

Outcome

@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!

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2yr ago

lcl.host

Maker

@dzaitzow amen to not messing with DNS! There's an old saying "the problem is DNS, it's always DNS!" Thanks for the congrats!

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2yr ago

Outcome

@stolt45 No stress at all my man!

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2yr ago

Very cool! Anything that can make local environments more secure and closer to prod is 100% appreciated. Really great product here!

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2yr ago

lcl.host

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@trent_kennelly Thanks, Trent. We glad you are in agreement with us!

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2yr ago

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