TinyApp Project

TinyApp is a full stack web application built with Node and Express that allows users to shorten long URLs (à la bit.ly). In essence, a URL Shortener is a service that takes a regular URL and transforms it into an encoded version, which redirects back to the original URL.

Final Product

Dependencies

• Node.js
• Express
• EJS
• bcryptjs
• cookie-session

Getting Started

• Install all dependencies (using the npm install command).
• Run the development web server using the node express_server.js command.

Analytics (Stretch)

The editing page of a short URL will present the following metrics:

• Number of total visit
• Number os visits by unique users
• Log of all the visits received, containing when and who made it
  • If a logged user visited the URL, their ID will be listed
  • If the user is unknow, their IP is listed instead

RESTful API (Stretch)

TinyApp implements a RESTful API following the routing conventions:

GET /urls

• Retrieves the collection of URLs to the logged in user.
• Renders a representation of the collection

POST /urls

• Creates a new URL using the provided request body
• Redirects to a route where the new URL can be viewed

GET /urls/:id

• Retrieves the URL with the specified id
• Renders a representation of the URL
• Responds with a 404 - Not Found error if the URL doesn't exist

PUT /urls/:id

• Updates a specific URL using the provided request body
• Redirects to a route where the updated URL can be viewed
• Responds with a 404 - Not Found error if the User doesn't exist

DELETE /urls/:id

• Deletes a specific URL
• Redirect to the index of the collection
• Responds with a 404 - Not Found error if the User doesn't exist