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Serving Your Angular CLI Apps Locally Over HTTPS

When running an Angular CLI app locally, it's easy to set it up to run over HTTPS to more accurately match how it would run in a secure production environment (rather than just running it over HTTP locally). The below approach works with Angular CLI 6 and above, but may also be available in earlier versions. In your angular.json file, look for your project in the projects  node and then find the serve  child node. Under that node, you can add a property called ssl  and set the value to true  to cause Angular CLI to build the project with a local SSL cert that it will create for you. "serve" : { "builder" : "@angular-devkit/build-angular:dev-server" , "options" : { "browserTarget" : "staff-portal-two:build" , "ssl" : true }, When you run ng serve  for the first time after adding this property, there will be some output on the command line regarding the certificate being created. Af...