Enabling SSL

1. Get a certificate

You can use your existing certificate or create a new one using mkcert utility. Follow the installation guide for your platform.

After installation install mkcert certificate into your system by running the command below:

mkcert -install

Now we need to create a certificate. To create a certificate run command below:

> mkcert localhost 127.0.0.1

Created a new certificate valid for the following names 📜
 - "localhost"
 - "127.0.0.1"

The certificate is at "./localhost+1.pem" and the key at "./localhost+1-key.pem" ✅

It will expire on 13 May 2023 🗓

Now we have all files that we need for CMA config.

2. Setup CMA

Add to your cma.js file field ssl with the following object:

module.export = {
    ... other configuration
    ssl: {
        enabled: true,
        ssl_certificate: './localhost+1.pem',
        ssl_certificate_key: './localhost+1-key.pem'
    }
}

That is it! Just now we have enabled SSL in our application! Now to apply changes we need to run start command without -s option.

You can run only one application with SSL enabled at the time because it will use port 443 which is the default port for SSL.