url-shortener-microservice

Freecodecamp's API Project for Back End Development Certification

User Stories:

• I can pass a URL as a parameter and I will receive a shortened URL in the JSON response.
• If I pass an invalid URL that doesn't follow the valid http://www.example.com format, the JSON response will contain an error instead.
• When I visit that shortened URL, it will redirect me to my original link.

Requirements

• Node.js
• MongoDB

Installation

npm install - to install the dependencies

Usage

npm start - to start the server

Example Creation Usage

http://host:port/new/http://www.google.com - to shorten a new url

http://host:port/new/http://foo-bar-bar.com:80 - to shorten a new url

Example Creation Output

{ "original_url":"http://foo-bar-bar.com:80", "short_url":"http://host:port/8170" }

Example Visit Usage

http://host:port/2871 will redirect to http://www.google.com/