How to initialize HTTPS server?

[TokugawaTakeshi]

Unfortunately, I have not found the HTTPS examples in README.md of the routing-controllers package.

Below example starts HTTP server, not HTTPS, is not it?

import { createExpressServer } from 'routing-controllers';
import { UserController } from './UserController';

// creates express app, registers all controller routes and returns you express app instance
const app = createExpressServer({
  controllers: [UserController], // we specify controllers we want to use
});

// run express application on port 3000
app.listen(3000);

AFAIK, with plain Express, the HTTPS server must be run via passing of the express application instance as the parameter of https.createServer:

var fs = require('fs');
var http = require('http');
var https = require('https');
var privateKey  = fs.readFileSync('sslcert/server.key', 'utf8');
var certificate = fs.readFileSync('sslcert/server.crt', 'utf8');

var credentials = {key: privateKey, cert: certificate};
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

// your express configuration here

var httpServer = http.createServer(app);
var httpsServer = https.createServer(credentials, app);

httpServer.listen(8080);
httpsServer.listen(8443);

Source

Will it work with "routing-controllers"?

I hope there is the way to use the HTTPS because HTTPS is de-facto required today.

[attilaorosz]

You can use useExpressServer instead and pass in your express instance and start the https server as in your example.

[TokugawaTakeshi]

@attilaorosz

Looks like works fine! Thank you for the answer!