URL Shortener

A simple url shortener using Base62 conversion.

Requirements

• Go 1.16+
• docker-compose 1.27.0+

Features

• Works without JavaScript ☑️
• Dark mode 🌒
• Single binary (go:embed)

Usage

$ ./bin/go-url-shortener -help
Usage of ./bin/go-url-shortener:
  -port string
        server port (default "4000")
  -public string
        public url prefix (default "http://localhost:4000/")

Running the application

# Create .env file
$ make -B .env env=local
# Download go modules
$ go mod download
# Start linked services (postgres, etc.)
$ make deps
# Apply database migrations
$ ./scripts/migrate.sh up

# Run in watch mode (restart on file change)
$ make dev
# Or run in normal mode
$ go run ./cmd/go-url-shortener/

Testing

$ make test

Dockerizing

$ make -B .env env=docker
$ ./scripts/migrate.sh up
$ docker-compose up app

Database migrations

migrate - CLI and Golang library.

Up

$ ./scripts/migrate.sh up

Down

$ ./scripts/migrate.sh down

Create

$ ./scripts/migrate.sh create -dir /migrations -ext sql -seq create_new_table

Output:
migrations/XXXXXX_create_new_table.up.sql
migrations/XXXXXX_create_new_table.down.sql

License

MIT