URLShortener

Front end and api is combined in 1 repo, since it is a small project. For scalability we can break them into two microservices.

Technology used

1. Next.js
2. Postgresql as database
3. pg-promise for database connection
4. redux for store management

Basic setup

Installing Node

Make sure NodeJS version 10+ is installed on your machine.

brew install node
Installing nodemon

We use nodemon to reload the site whenever changes are made locally.

npm install -g nodemon

Installing Node packages

Once you have Postgres and Node, run these commands:

yarn
yarn dev

Database setup:

1. brew install postgresql
2. g_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start && brew services start postgresql
3. psql postgres
4. CREATE ROLE prantik_de WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'qwertyuiop';
5. ALTER ROLE prantik_de CREATEDB;
6. \q
7. psql postgres -U prantik_de
8. CREATE DATABASE url_shortening_db;
9. GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE url_shortening_db TO prantik_de;
10. \list
11. \connect url_shortening_db
12. \q

Fill the database with tables

npm run do-setup-database npm run do-seed-database

View the website

View http://localhost:5000 in your browser.

Api Test

Test api health on http://localhost:5000/api/testcase url.