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Localhost projects on GitHub

Tools for local development, tunnels, and trusted certificates.

As of , the most-starred Localhost projects on GitHub are mkcert (59.7K stars), http-server (14.2K stars) and portless (12.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Localhost repositories with 108.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was portless, with +8 stars in a day.

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108.4KStars in total
+18Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+8

portless

vercel-labs/portless · ★ 12.7K

Portless is a CLI tool that replaces unstable local dev port numbers with stable, named .localhost URLs, with HTTPS and HTTP/2 enabled by default.

+5

mkcert

FiloSottile/mkcert · ★ 59.7K

mkcert is a simple zero-config tool that creates locally-trusted TLS certificates for development, so your local HTTPS sites don't show browser warnings.

+4

bore

ekzhang/bore · ★ 11.5K

bore is a simple CLI tool written in Rust that creates TCP tunnels to expose a local port to a remote server, bypassing NAT and firewalls, similar to ngrok or localtunnel.

+1

http-server

http-party/http-server · ★ 14.2K

http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server: point it at a folder and it serves the files over HTTP. The README says it is powerful enough for production usage, yet simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development and learning.

The all-time top

6 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · FiloSottile/mkcert

    mkcert

    mkcert is a simple zero-config tool that creates locally-trusted TLS certificates for development, so your local HTTPS sites don't show browser warnings.

    59.7K
  2. #2 · http-party/http-server

    http-server

    http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server: point it at a folder and it serves the files over HTTP. The README says it is powerful enough for production usage, yet simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development and learning.

    14.2K
  3. #3 · vercel-labs/portless

    portless

    Portless is a CLI tool that replaces unstable local dev port numbers with stable, named .localhost URLs, with HTTPS and HTTP/2 enabled by default.

    12.7K
  1. 4

    bore

    11.5Kekzhang/bore · Rust

    bore is a simple CLI tool written in Rust that creates TCP tunnels to expose a local port to a remote server, bypassing NAT and firewalls, similar to ngrok or localtunnel.

  2. 5

    hotel

    10Ktypicode/hotel · JavaScript

    Hotel is a simple process manager for developers: you start your apps from the browser and reach them through local .localhost domains with HTTPS set up automatically.

  3. 6

    leftopen

    131SonghaiFan/leftopen · Swift

    LeftOpen is a native macOS menu bar app and CLI that shows what is listening on localhost, identifies which project or process owns each port, and lets you gently close them.

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