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How to create an HTTPS certificate for localhost domains

This focuses on generating the certificates for loading local virtual hosts hosted on your computer, for development only.

Do not use self-signed certificates in production ! For online certificates, use Let's Encrypt instead (tutorial).

Using D3 in a React component to transition elements. Alternative implementations only with D3 and using React's TransitionGroup addon.

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	$cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName "localhost", "localhost" -CertStoreLocation "cert:\LocalMachine\My" -NotAfter (Get-Date).AddYears(5)
	$thumb = $cert.GetCertHashString()

	For ($i=44300; $i -le 44399; $i++) {
	netsh http delete sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:$i
	}

	For ($i=44300; $i -le 44399; $i++) {
	netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:$i certhash=$thumb appid=`{214124cd-d05b-4309-9af9-9caa44b2b74a`}
	}

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	# Deployment
	# ----------

	echo Handling node.js deployment.

	# 1. Select node version
	selectNodeVersion

	# 2. Install npm packages