NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js

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Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.

Application connectivity today requires proper and rapid configuration and reconfiguration.

In this post author covers the configuration of TLS certificates and Node.js applications in detail. Security and encryption is a must for every production application.

NGINX Unit is configured on the fly, without relying on static configuration files and requiring process reloads. Now all apps, including Go and Node.js, can be deployed into a larger production environment faster, more safely, and with no downtime.

With NGINX Unit, you can add, change, and remove certificates without reloading application processes. Detailed configuration is included. Read more, to learn about this lightweight application server from NGINX.

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