Localias Alternatives

localias reviews and mentions

• I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2026

  I like localias[1] for this problem. Not only do you get nice aliases for all your local ports, but you also get nice Caddy-managed TLS certs for them

  [1]: https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

• Ask HN: mDNS Locked Down on Macs?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2025

  https://github.com/peterldowns/localias/issues/40#issuecomment-2630197849

  https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/663271

  Any workaround/alternatives?

• Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2025

  Caddy is really great. In prod, but most surprisingly 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 tricky bits of a web app like HTTP redirect, cookies, and CORS to work consistently across dev and prod.

  - Can be used on GHA for HTTPS as well https://github.com/iloveitaly/github-action-localias

• You Can't Follow Me
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024

  I empathize with the author and found the post to be a interesting and concrete example of what it's _actually like_ to try to publish a blog to Mastodon, which is something that I have thought about and read about in abstract. So, thank you sir for writing this up.

  One thing to consider would be to try to use Caddy [0], or a tool like localias [1], as a local https proxy. You might be able to run both the mastodon server and your blog software on the same computer and refer to local-only urls like "https://blog.test" and "https://mastodon.test" and have everything work.

  I'd be curious to know why the author didn't try this, they seem to be quite knowledgeable of other web technologies 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

• Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023

  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.

• Free and open source software projects are in transition
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023

  Pretty good overview from Baldur — I don't always agree with everything he writes but this seems relatively correct.

  One question I'd ask him (and anyone else reading) is: what are some other options for monetization?

  Over the last few weeks I had three different VCs reach out to me about some of the open source projects I've been releasing, and ask me if I'd thought about making a business out of them. I told them that no, based on the problem the software was solving, I didn't see how I could adopt open-core or companion-saas business models, and I wasn't sure how else it could be done while keeping the code open source.

  Can anyone suggest a viable business model that would allow:

  * Code remains at least source available, ideally open source for non-commercial use.

  * I can charge for commercial use.

  * Actually doing the licensing is reasonable, ie no spyware or phoning home from the tool.

  Wouldn't need to be perfect, I understand that if the code is open source a company could easily fork and use it without paying me. The idea would be to make it 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

• Show HN: Localias, securely manage local devserver aliases
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 May 2023
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