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Terminating SSL

Most production environments include a load balancer or HTTP proxy (such as nginx) that performs SSL termination on behalf of web applications that it serves.

If you are using Apollo Server in an application that must perform its own SSL termination, you can use the https module with the apollo-server-express middleware library.

Here's an example that uses HTTPS in production and HTTP in development:

import express from 'express'
import { ApolloServer } from 'apollo-server-express'
import typeDefs from './graphql/schema'
import resolvers from './graphql/resolvers'
import fs from 'fs'
import https from 'https'
import http from 'http'

const configurations = {
  // Note: You may need sudo to run on port 443
  production: { ssl: true, port: 443, hostname: 'example.com' },
  development: { ssl: false, port: 4000, hostname: 'localhost' }
}

const environment = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'production'
const config = configurations[environment]

const apollo = new ApolloServer({ typeDefs, resolvers })

const app = express()
apollo.applyMiddleware({ app })

// Create the HTTPS or HTTP server, per configuration
var server
if (config.ssl) {
  // Assumes certificates are in a .ssl folder off of the package root. Make sure 
  // these files are secured.
  server = https.createServer(
    {
      key: fs.readFileSync(`./ssl/${environment}/server.key`),
      cert: fs.readFileSync(`./ssl/${environment}/server.crt`)
    },
    app
  )
} else {
  server = http.createServer(app)
}

server.listen({ port: config.port }, () =>
  console.log(
    '🚀 Server ready at',
    `http${config.ssl ? 's' : ''}://${config.hostname}:${config.port}${apollo.graphqlPath}`
  )
)
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