javascript - Listen on HTTP and HTTPS for a single express app

Question

Can I create an Express server listening on both HTTP and HTTPS, with the same routes and the same middlewares?

Currently I do this with Express on HTTP, with stunnel tunneling HTTPS to Express, but I prefer a pure Node solution.

I can do it with this code, but using the handle method that is marked as private:

var express = require( 'express' )
    , https = require("https")
    , fs = require( 'fs' );

var app = express.createServer();
// init routes and middlewares
app.listen( 80 );

var privateKey = fs.readFileSync( 'privatekey.pem' ).toString();
var certificate = fs.readFileSync( 'certificate.pem' ).toString();
var options = {key: privateKey, cert: certificate};
https.createServer( options, function(req,res)
{
    app.handle( req, res );
} ).listen( 443 );

Answer 1

To enable your app to listen for both http and https on ports 80 and 443 respectively, do the following

Create an express app:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

The app returned by express() is a JavaScript function. It can be be passed to Node’s HTTP servers as a callback to handle requests. This makes it easy to provide both HTTP and HTTPS versions of your app using the same code base.

You can do so as follows:

var express = require('express');
var https = require('https');
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var app = express();

var options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('/path/to/key.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('/path/to/cert.pem'),
  ca: fs.readFileSync('/path/to/ca.pem')
};

http.createServer(app).listen(80);
https.createServer(options, app).listen(443);

For complete detail see the doc