shurl

URL Shortener - Goland full stack web application in the form of a web service with primitive ui (for now as part of a course project of golang backend system)

Main Features

• Basic functionality of this kind of services is implemented:
  • Url shortening
  • Short url redirection
  • Click rate statistics
  • Expirable links
  • Url deletion
• Framework supports easy extensibility with flexible configuration based on adopting open source best practices + design principles with usage of the following components and technologies:
  • RESTfull API
    • openapi v3.0.3
    • type, spec, chi-server generated by oapi-codegen
    • swagger ui (.../opeanapi entry point)
  • Http requests handling with go-chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
  • Configurable token generation
    • using hashid algo with customizable alphabet, length and salt
    • simple interface and quick replacement in config file.
  • Multiple supported storage backends
    • maps in memory (with saving results between application launches) - the fastest option
    • embedded in-memory high performance local database with bolt using storm powerful toolkit
  • Flexible multifactorial logging using logrus
  • Comprehensive errors identification
  • Dockerized
  • Full CI/CD workflow integration with heroku
• Open source

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/nj-eka/shurl.git
$ cd shurl

run locally

$ make run

run in docker container

$ docker build -f Dockerfile -t shurl_image .
$ docker run -p 8443:8443 --rm -it shurl_image

run on heroku platform (main road)

$ heroku login
$ heroku stack:set container -a [heroku_app_name]
$ heroku container:login
$ docker tag shurl_image:latest registry.heroku.com/[heroku_app_name]/web
$ docker push registry.heroku.com/[heroku_app_name]/web
$ heroku container:release web
$ heruku open

Configuration and usage:

Usage:

$ shurl [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
  --env-prefix  - env prefix; default: (appName)
  --env         - path to .env file (to simplify deployment procedure) default: .env (pwd)
  --config      - path to config file; default: (appName).yml
  --save-config - path to save current resolved config

Config file example:

shutdown-timeout: 30s
server:
  host: "0.0.0.0"
  port: 8443
  timeout: 3s
router:
  web-path: "web"
logging:
  path: "shurl.log"
  level: debug
  format: text
store:
  bolt:
    path: "links.db"
    timeout: 1s
tokenizer:
  hashid:
    salt: "ecafbaf0-1bcc-11ec-9621-0242ac130002"
    min-length: 5
    alphabet: "0123456789_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

Environment variables (optional):

#SHURL == --env-prefix
SHURL_LOGGING_PATH="path/to/log.file" 
SHURL_LOGGING_LEVEL="info" # debug, warn, error, critical
SHURL_SERVER_HOST="localhost"
SHURL_SERVER_PORT=(tcp.port) == PORT as alias (heroku specific)
SHURL_STORE_BOLT_PATH="path/to/bolt.db"
SHURL_TOKENIZER_SALT="unique string for your token generator"
SHURL_ROUTER_WEB_PATH="path/to/web_dir"

User interface (screenshots):

Ideas for futures:

• Extend functionality in the following ways:
  • Add link alias
  • Change the destination URL for any short link, including QR Codes;
  • Create secure & reliable links:
    • Implement multiple authorization strategies:
      • mainly: local authorization via OAuth 2.0 (Google, GitHub etc)
      • deal with proxy authorization for running behind e.g. Google IAP
      • auth make token to be user proprietary (when token depends on []int {user_id, rec_id})
    • use https protocol
  • Add UTM labels
  • Leverage key real-time data points on every click;
  • Keep track of link history
  • move id in store from int type to uuid
• Persistent non-local storage
  • with redis
  • with PostgreSQL

Any kind of contributions (ideas, etc) and bug reports are welcome