Solid-app-kit NPM

solid-app-kit

A server that includes both a pod server and an app

See https://github.com/michielbdejong/solid-app-kit/blob/master/src/cli.ts for an example.

On localhost

Previously there were several ways to test https-based systems on localhost, but in the last few years, browsers have tightened that up a lot, meaning you want to steer clear of using 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' as the hostname. Even if you use something like chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost to make https://localhost work in your browser, the Solid IDP that's built into Solid App Kit would reject its own localhost domain name as a redirect URI.

So instead, you can use a domain name which you point to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts. I personally like to use https://lolcathost.de/ which is a domain name that exists but is pointed to 127.0.0.1 in DNS. Long story short, you'll need to generate a CA root certificate, and import it into your browser, then sign a cert for the domain name you wil be testing with. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7580508/getting-chrome-to-accept-self-signed-localhost-certificate for more info on that. Once you've done that, you can:

npm install
npm run build
npm start

and visit https://lolcathost.de/ (or whichever domain name you chose) to view the app. Make sure to click "Register" to create an account when using your Solid App Kit server for the first time!