eillanrt / iksi

Demonstrates simple CRUD operations and performs common HTTP requests through a basic URL shrinker web server

iksi

A simple url-shrinker web server

Thanks for Bard for writing some CSS for me!

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RUN

• Go to https://mongodb.com. Set up a database and get URI. Choose nodeJS as the driver
• Creata a .env file and add MONGODB_URI key with a corresponding value of the URI obtained from mongoDB
• install necessary dependecies npm install
• run the server npx nodemon server.js
• Open http://127.0.0.1:3000 on browser

GET /:short_url

Will redirect to the corresponding original URL if it is a valid short url. Otherwise it will respond with 404

POST /shorten

The following code demonstrates how to send POST request to the server

async function getShortURL(longURL) {
  const res = await fetch('/shorten', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({ original_url: longURL }),
  })

  const data = await res.json()
  /*
    data
    {
      _id: mongoDB ID
      original_url: <long_url>,
      short_url: a short string that serves as the path to that original url,
      number_of_visits: how many times the short_url has been clicked/opened
    }
  */

  return data.short_url
}

getShortURL('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFwa5Owp0-k').then(shortURL => {
    console.log(shortURL)
})

Then append that short id string in to the origin

http://127.0.0.1:3000/<short-id-string>

DELETE /delete

Deletes a specified URL Data

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