How do I use a self signed certificate for a HTTPS Node.js server?

Question

I have started writing a wrapper for an API which requires all requests to be over HTTPS. Instead of making requests to the actual API while I am developing and testing it I

Answer 1

Your key generation looks okay. You shouldn't need a ca because you aren't rejecting unsigned requests.

Add .toString() to the end of your readFileSync methods so that you are actually passing a string, not a file object.