Url_Shortener-EJS

Building a url shortener with the ejs (view template) with html. EJS simply stands for Embedded Javascript. It is a simple templating language/engine that lets its user generate HTML with plain javascript. EJS is mostly useful whenever you have to output HTML with a lot of javascript. Firstly, the folder was initialized using npm init -y Then, the packages for building a backend was installed such as express, mongoose and the ejs (using the npm i express mongoose ejs command) The dev dependency was installed: npm i --save-dev nodemon This project is a url shortener, we installed a url shortening id using the command npm i shortid