URL Shortener

• This is a URL shortener built using the Flask microframework of python.
• The site also shows the number of times a given shortened URL has been visited
• To replicate this project on your machine, follow these steps:
  1. git clone this repo
  2. Run pipenv install -r requirements.txt, to install all dependencies from the pipfile.lock
  3. Create a .env file to store details of sqlite db URI as DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///name.db
  4. Create a .flaskenv file to set FLASK_APP = url_shortener and FLASK_ENV = development, so that you can run the app in development.
  5. flask run is the command to start the development server(Note: execute this inside the pipenv shell)