How do you secure your backend using HTTPS? I will create a Swagger Node Project to show you how.

Swagger Module for Node will create an endpoint that looks like this( By default the Swagger Document is available on http://localhost:10010/swagger).

Now let’s configure the NGINX to send the traffic to my upstream server.

Find your NGINX configuration file. On my Mac it was in /usr/local/etc/nginx/ directory.

Add this configuration to that.

Now stop NGINX and then start it.

Or simply restart it.

You are all set. Hit the endpoint using the browser( I am using a Self Signed Certificate. Therefore the browser will show an invalid cert message.).

Don’t forget to disable HTTP or to enforce HTTP redirection to HTTPS in your Production Environments.