URL Shortener API

An Express.js API that takes a submitted URL and creates an alias URL that, if navigated to, will redirect to the original URL.

Inspired by the URL Shortener Microservice challenge as part of the curriculum for the Back End Development and APIs Certification on freeCodeCamp.

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Built With

• Express.js
• Node.js
• Mongoose
• MongoDB
• EJS
• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• Vanilla JS
• randomstring
• valid-url
• dotenv
• Normalize.css
• Google Fonts
• FontAwesome
• nodemon

Demo

View project demo at https://autumnchris-url-shortener-api.onrender.com/api.

Instructions

After forking and cloning, navigate to the repository in your command line and install the NPM packages:

npm install

Create a .env file in the root of the repository and add the following environment variables:

MONGO_URI=<your-mongodb-uri>

Run the following script in your command line if starting the repository in development mode:

npm run dev

Run the following script in your command line if starting the repository in production mode:

npm start

Once the server is running, go to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.