Using Let's Encrypt in Development with NGINX and AWS Route 53

I frequently see people struggling to set up HTTPS in development. If you’re a long time developer, you may have done this in the past with self-signed certificates, buying your own certificates and tweaking your hosts file, or using tools like puma-dev. While these approaches work to an extent, Let’s Encrypt changed the game, at least for me. With Let’s Encrypt and a DNS provider like AWS Route 53, you’ll be able to run HTTPS with wildcard subdomains without having to mess with your /etc/hosts...

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