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How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

	#!/bin/bash
	# Shell script to backup MySQL database

	# Set these variables
	MyUSER="" # DB_USERNAME
	MyPASS="" # DB_PASSWORD
	MyHOST="" # DB_HOSTNAME

	# Backup Dest directory
	DEST="" # /home/username/backups/DB

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.25882352941176467</real>
	<key>Green Component</key>
	<real>0.21176470588235294</real>

	# Create a container from the mongo image,
	# run is as a daemon (-d), expose the port 27017 (-p),
	# set it to auto start (--restart)
	# and with mongo authentication (--auth)
	# Image used is https://hub.docker.com/_/mongo/
	docker pull mongo
	docker run --name YOURCONTAINERNAME --restart=always -d -p 27017:27017 mongo mongod --auth

	# Using the mongo "localhost exception" (https://docs.mongodb.org/v3.0/core/security-users/#localhost-exception)
	# add a root user

	// The following example POSTS data to mailthis.to, redirects the user to a confirmation page, and then sends an email (upon the successful completion of Recaptcha verification)

	$.post('https://mailthis.to/[email protected]', {
	email: '[email protected]',
	_subject: 'hi!',
	message: 'Test'
	}).then(function () {
	location.href = 'https://mailthis.to/confirm'
	});

	# Reference: https://www.exclamationlabs.com/blog/continuous-deployment-to-npm-using-gitlab-ci/

	# GitLab uses docker in the background, so we need to specify the
	# image versions. This is useful because we're freely to use
	# multiple node versions to work with it. They come from the docker
	# repo.
	# Uses NodeJS V 9.4.0
	image: node:9.4.0

	# And to cache them as well.