TinyApp Project

TinyApp is a full stack web application built with Node and Express that allows users to shorten long URLs (à la bit.ly).

Features

• Uses cookies to track user sessions
• Built in analytics
  • tracks the number of visits to a unique URL
  • tracks total number of visits to a URL
  • tracks IP addresses of visitors
  • tracks date and time of visits accessing a short URL
  • analytics are only visible to the user who created the URL
• Permissions
  • only a user that creates a URL has authorization to edit and delete it
  • can only create a URL if they are logged in and registered with the site
• Header contents are conditional on whether the user is logged in or not

Final Product

Dependencies

• Node.js
• Express
• EJS
• bcryptjs
• cookie-session
• method-override

Getting Started

• Install all dependencies (using the npm install command).
• Run the development web server using the node express_server.js command.

Test Data:

• email: 'test@email.com'
• password: 'a'

Has preset data in the database. See comments in express_server.js to remove predefined data.

Example Short URL: http://localhost:8080/u/abcd