API Project: URL Shortener Microservice for FCC

About

This is my project of the URL Shortener Microservice challenge for the freeCodeCamp API and Microservice certification. It was built based on the boilerplate available here.

Endpoints:

Endpoints	Description
POST /api/shorturl/new	Register a URL and create a short URL for it
GET /api/shorturl/{short_url}	Redirect to the original URL previously registered

Example output:

• {"original_url":"https://freecodecamp.org","short_url":"1904412960"}
• {"error":"invalid url"}

How to use:

Be sure to change the uri variable in database.js according to your own MongoDB server. It's also possible to just create a .env file and store this information there in order to keep it hidden and safe. Then, just run on terminal:

npm install
npm start

Feedback

I'm a student and I really would like to hear case you have any tips, correction suggestions or comments about any my of projects (🤓).