reverse-proxy-schematic

Angular schematic for a development SSL wildcard reverse-proxy

What is it for?

It will allow you to serve http://localhost:4200 from a secured local domain like https://example.localhost. You can also add subdomains such that http://localhost:4201 will be served from https://subdomain.example.localhost.

Installation

1. Download the source code to /path/to/reverse-proxy-schematic
2. Go to your workspace and:

npm link /path/to/reverse-proxy-schematic
ng g /path/to/reverse-proxy-schematic/src/collection.json:proxy --hostname="example.localhost" --apiPort="5000" --apiRoute="api"

The apiPort and apiRoute args are optional and default to 5000 and api, respectively. If using cloud functions for the backend, you can provide the locally served URL (ex: 5000/example-com/us-central1) to the apiPort.

This schematic adds

1. a proxy folder to the root of your workspace
2. generate.proxy.cert and proxy scripts to package.json

What you need to setup

1. update contents of proxy/cert/proxy.csr.cnf (change [COUNTRY CODE] to US and so on)
2. run npm run generate.proxy.cert
3. add /proxy/cert/ssl/rootCA.pem to your browser's Trusted Root Certification Authorities
4. add the hostname domain and any subdomains to your local hosts file
5. add custom scripts to package.json to serve each app via proxy (script name must start with start.):

  scripts: {
    //
    "start.app1": "ng serve --project=app1 --host=example.localhost --port=4200",
    "start.app2": "ng serve --project=app2 --host=subdomain.example.localhost --port=4201"
  }

Then npm run proxy (or npm run proxy -- -s), npm run start.app1, npm run start.app2 and open https://example.localhost