Create self signed certificate for Node js using mkcert

1. Start powershell as administrator

2. choco install mkcert

3. create a _cert folder in node js app root directory


4. mkcert -install

5. mkcert -pkcs12 localhost

This will create 2 files localhost.pem, localhost-key.pem  

6. in server.js make following code change

const https = require('https');

const fs = require('fs');

 

const options = {

    key: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/_certs/localhost-key.pem'),

    cert: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/_certs/localhost.pem'),

};

 

let PORT = process.env.PORT || 5000;

https.createServer(options, app).listen(`${PORT}`, () => {

    console.log('Server listening on port ' + `${PORT}`);

});