Enable HTTPS in LOCALHOST with OpenSSL for a NodeJS app🤓(with video)

For different purposes, we might need to enable HTTPS in our LOCALHOST environment. In this video, I have tried to show how we can do that in few minutes. 🎯
Enjoy 🌸

/// Commands to generate certificate with OpenSSL ///

openssl genrsa -out key.pem

openssl req -new -key key.pem -out csr.pem

openssl x509 -req -days 9999 -in csr.pem -signkey key.pem -out cert.pem

rm csr.pem

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Comments

[Tyler Auerbeck]

Another tool I find pretty useful when I just need some self signed certs is mkcert: github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

[Shahjada Talukdar]

Thanks for sharing! 👋