An Express app that generates, saves and returns a short url when a long url is entered. When the short url is used, the app searches the database and redirects the request to the long url if it is found in the database.

• POST request to http://baseUrl.com/api/shorten with a body of {longUrl: url}

{
    "_id": "5f32062a9184fa25d3dff9f6",
    "longUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M1GLSSF?pf_rd_r=AN7CTHK93AZHG89SABXG&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee",
    "shortUrl": "http://baseUrl.com/RBDlnk3ec",
    "urlCode": "RBDlnk3ec",
    "date": "Mon Aug 10 2020 21:44:58 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)"
}

Visiting http://baseUrl.com/urlCode will redirect to the longUrl if it is found in the database

npm install

npm start

A config folder should be created with a default.json file that contains a mongoDB connection string, and a baseUrl value.

Once the server has started, navigate to localhost:5000.

• Express - Server
• Moment - Parsing Dates
• mongoose - Database ORM
• shortid - shortCode generation
• valid-url - validate urls

• John Irle - JohnIrle