Description

• A backend application that allows shortening a specific URL. The main technology stack are REST APIs, ExpressJS, TypeScript, NodeJS, and MongoDB.

• This is my final solution of the FreeCodeCamp URL Shortener Mircoservice challenge.

• Reference: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis/back-end-development-and-apis-projects/url-shortener-microservice

Setup

• Create a new .env file and put the corresponding key-value pairs.

# * MongoDB
MONGODB_URI=

# * Local
PORT=

• Run the following commands.

npm run build
npm run dev

• Testing

* CreateURL
Method: POST
URL: http://localhost:13000/api/shorturl
Body (JSON): { "short_url": "https://github.com" }

* GetURL
Method: GET
URL: http://localhost:13000/api/shorturl/:short_url?
Params: { "short_url": 1111 }

Testing

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