create-react-app: how to use https instead of http?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knows how to use https on dev for the 'create-react-app' environment. I can't see anything about that in the README or quick googling. I just want either the https://localhost:3000 to work, or else https://localhost:3001.

Answer 1

Set HTTPS=true before you run the start command.

Documentation

The implementation uses the HTTPS Environment Variable to determine which protocol to use when starting the server.

Answer 2

You can edit your package.json scripts section to read:

"scripts": { "start": "set HTTPS=true&&react-scripts start", ... }

or just run set HTTPS=true&&npm start

Just a sidenote, for me, making this change breaks hot reloading for some reason....

-- Note: OS === Windows 10 64-Bit