Shrink

A URL Shortener built for blazinglyfast.net.

Design

Starting (URL Shortener) Shrink Server

With Docker Compose

docker compose up

Locally

Launch Redis Server

NOTE: The server is configured to use Redis for caching, although the program is customizable to opt out of caching and not depend on Redis. Please install redis-server if not present.

redis-server

Run Rust Server Binary

cargo run --release

Shortening URLs

Bash Scripts under ./scripts can be used to interact with the running server.

./scripts/shrink.sh https://blazinglyfast.net/
# {"shrunk":"http://localhost:3000/hWU7Xgc"}

Custom Alias for a URL

./scripts/alias.sh blaze https://blazinglyfast.net/
# {"shrunk":"http://localhost:3000/blaze"}