URL Shortener

A fully dockerized, self-hostable link shortening web application.

Built with NodeJS, TypeScript, and MongoDB.

Features

• Validation upon creation (duplicates, invalid URLs, redirect loops, etc.)
• Dockerized NodeJS and MongoDB
• Live reload and compilation of TypeScript files

Potential Features

• Custom URL expiry
• User registration to add/modify/delete URL redirects
• Rate limiting
• Click/Impression tracking

Quick Start

• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/jengmicah/url-shortener.git
• Duplicate .env.example and rename to .env
  • Set SERVER_URI to server host
    • Note that the port of SERVER_URI corresponds with the exposed host port in docker-compose.yml (host:container)
    • The exposed port in Dockerfile corresponds with the exposed container port in docker-compose.yml (host:container) as well as the server port specified in src/index.ts.
  • Set NODE_ENV to development or production
• Run ./_build.sh to run the docker-compose.yml
  • May need to run chmod +x _build.sh beforehand