How do you serve ember-cli from https://localhost:4200 in development

Question

For our authentication to work with our ember app we need to serve the app from a secure url. We have a self signed ssl cert.

How do I setup the ember-cli to serve the

Answer 1

I use the tunnels gem with pow port-proxying.

Update: more detail

Using a real web server (like the previous answer with nginx) is a great way to go, and is probably more like your production setup. However, I manage a lot of different projects, and am not that interested in managing an nginx configuration file for all of my projects. Pow makes it easy to make a lot of different projects available on port 80 on one development machine.

Pow has two main modes. The primary function is to be a simple server for Rack applications, accessed via a custom local domain such as http://my-application.dev/. This is done by symlinking ~/.pow/my-application to a directory that contains a rack application. However, pow can also proxy requests to a custom local domain to a specified port by creating a file that contains only the port number (such as echo 4200 > ~/.pow/my-application). This makes it easy to develop locally with an actual domain (also, as a side note, subdomains work too, which is really handy; for example, foobar.my-application.dev will also route to my-application).

Tunnels makes it easy to use pow with https.

Setup

# Install pow
curl get.pow.cx | sh

# Set up pow proxy for your ember app
echo 4200 > ~/.pow/my-application

# Start your ember server
ember serve # specify a port here if you used something else for pow proxy
# Check that http://my-application.dev correctly shows your ember app in the browser

# Install tunnels
gem install tunnels # possibly with sudo depending on your ruby setup

# Start tunnels
sudo tunnels

# Now https://my-application.dev should work