URL Shortner Microservice

fCC Project - Create short URLs

Node.js code for app that can create short URLs.

Functionality

• POST a URL to /api/shorturl via URL input box. Receive JSON response with original_url and short_url properties in the following format.

{ original_url: <original_url>, short_url: <short_url> }

• When you visit [project_url]/api/shorturl/<short_url>, you will be redirected to the original URL.
• Original URL must follow valid http://www.example.com format. Otherwise, JSON response will contain { error: "invalid url" }.
• Submitted URLs are verified using the function dns.lookup(hostname, cb) from the dns built-in node module.