Url Shortner Microservice

Note This is a FreeCodeCamp "Back End Development and API" course project #3

Tech Stack

• node
• express
• mongo db

Extra packages used

• body-parser
• cors
• dotenv
• mongoose
• url

How does it work?

You have to enter a valid url of http://www.example.com format. Once you click on POST URL it sends a JSON response with the shorturl as an integer value like 1,2,3...

Then, if you visit /api/shorturl/<short_url> it redirects to the url that was shortened.

Short Demo

fcc-backend-project3-demo.mp4