live site: https://shorten-this-url.herokuapp.com/
Made using nodejs, mongodb, expressjs, pugjs.
For Free Code Camp - API Challenges - url shortener microservice
User Stories:
- I can pass a URL as a parameter and I will receive a shortened URL in the JSON response.
- If I pass an invalid URL that doesn't follow the valid http://www.example.com format, the JSON response will contain an error instead
- When I visit that shortened URL, it will redirect me to my original link.
Example Usage
https://shorten-this-url.herokuapp.com/new/https://www.google.com
https://shorten-this-url.herokuapp.com/new/https://github.com/makkBit/shorten-this-url/blob/master/app/api/url-shortener.js
json response:
``` { "original_url":"https://shorten-this-url.herokuapp.com/new/https://github.com/makkBit/shorten-this-url/blob/master/app/api/url-shortener.js", "short_url":"https://shorten-this-url.herokuapp.com/4838511" } ```