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custom local domain aliases for local dev servers

14 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2023-05-19 · latest 2026-05-01

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  1. …nice aliases for all your local ports, but you also get nice Caddy-managed TLS certs for them [1]: https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
    comment by swiftcoder · 2026-05-01 · in I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
  2. Alternative https://github.com/peterldowns/localias Granted no fancy UI to start and stop things but is it really needed? Tbh this is not a single binary you need dnsmasq go and other things
    comment by danfritz · 2026-05-01 · in I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
  3. …it wraps up the instructions in this blogpost and makes everything easy for you and your team. https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
    comment by peterldowns · 2025-04-10 · in .localhost Domains
  4. …for all environments. - There's a great tool, localias, which uses Caddy for a local dev server https://github.com/peterldowns/localias - I use it locally for dev https://github.com/iloveitaly/python-starter-template/blob/m... which aligns…
  5. …is built on Caddy; my whole goal is to make local web dev with https as simple as possible. https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
  6. …built binary and you can share your configs with your whole dev team in your git repo. [0] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
    comment by peterldowns · 2024-07-21 · in Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost
  7. …but the linked library [1] looks much nicer. I'll probably switch over to it soon. Thanks! [0]: https://github.com/peterldowns/localias/blob/main/Justfile#L... [1]: https://github.com/earthboundkid/versioninfo
    comment by peter_l_downs · 2024-05-14 · in Unix version control lore: what, ident
  8. …you don't need a GUI, the following combo works pretty well: - https://github.com/abiosoft/colima - https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
  9. …competitor in the space; if you're interested in this, please check out Localias as well! [0] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
  10. …so I have to assume there's a problem that I'm not seeing here. [0] https://caddyserver.com/ [1] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
    comment by peter_l_downs · 2024-01-11 · in You can't follow me
  11. Sure, but there are also excellent FOSS solutions for this, such as https://github.com/peterldowns/localias which has the benefit of being cross-platform.
  12. …zero-headache to pay me for a license if the code is being used by a funded team. The projects: * https://github.com/peterldowns/localias * https://github.com/peterldowns/pgmigrate