Your First Week With Node.js, 2nd Edition

Chapter 10: How to Use SSL/TLS with Node.js

by Florian Rappl and Almir Bijedic

In 2020, there’s no reason for your website not to use HTTPS. Visitors expect it, Google uses it as a ranking factor and browser makers will happily name and shame those sites not using it.

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through a practical example of how to add a Let’s Encrypt–generated certificate to your Express.js server.

But protecting our sites and apps with HTTPS isn’t enough. We should also demand encrypted connections from the servers we’re talking to. We’ll see that possibilities exist to activate the SSL/TLS layer even when it’s not enabled by default.

SSL with NGINX

If you’re looking for instructions on how to set up SSL with NGINX when configuring ...