What approach would you Recommend I take to set up https in a node app?

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Caddy

I'd look into Caddy or Traefik. Both are reverse proxies. Even though you mentioned you want to avoid them I strongly recommend you reconsider.

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Traefik

I'd look into Caddy or Traefik. Both are reverse proxies. Even though you mentioned you want to avoid them I strongly recommend you reconsider.

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Certbot

Reverse proxy, classic setup: Install nginx on your server and set it up as reverse proxy, so it will forward traffic to whatever port your Node app is listening on. Now you can once again use certbot, only difference being this time that it officially integrates with nginx, so if you run it with the --nginx option, it will add the required config automatically and also handle renewal through a cronjob. See this page in the nginx docs: https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-with-nginx.

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