Run vuejs development server with SSL (to serve over HTTPS)

I don't know if you still have this problem or if any other person still encounters it but I found a solution.

Follow the instruction above to generate an openssl key and cert in your working folder.

In /node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js change this line from:

 key: {    type: 'string',    describe: 'Path to a SSL key.',    group: SSL_GROUP  },  cert: {    type: 'string',    describe: 'Path to a SSL certificate.',    group: SSL_GROUP  },

to:

key: {    type: 'string',    describe: fs.readFileSync('key.pem'),    group: SSL_GROUP  },  cert: {    type: 'string',    describe: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),    group: SSL_GROUP  },

then set

argv.https = true;

That is all I had to do to have my code served from https.

Note that the command line will still read http://localhost:8080, but when you use https in the browser, your app will be displayed after warning from the browser

Requirement openssl installed :

First we have to generate SSL certificat based on a key made by openssl and without pass phrase cos this will generate an error.

nodejs https>node server.js _tls_common.js:87 c.context.setKey(options.key); ^ Error: error:0907B068:PEM routines:PEM_READ_BIO_PRIVATEKEY:bad password read ...

Go inside your project start to create key & certificat :

openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365

-nodes : Don't encrypt the private keys at all.

Install the packages needed for your project : (--save to add to package.json)

npm install express --savenpm install https --savenpm install fs --save

now create the server file :

touch server.jsnano server.js

Copy/Paste : to server.js

var fs = require('fs');var https = require('https');var app = require('express')();var options = {   key  : fs.readFileSync('key.pem'),   cert : fs.readFileSync('cert.pem')};app.get('/', function (req, res) {   res.send('Hello World!');});https.createServer(options, app).listen(3000, function () {   console.log('Started!');});

In this cas we don't use 443 port because is already used by services, so i use the port 3000 unused by any app...