onepixel (1px.li)

"onepixel" is an API-first URL shortener.

Why this name?

A URL shortener should have a short domain name, possibly 2 or 3 letter in length.
"1 pixel" is the smallest unit of a screen.
So 1px.li stands for one pixel links - i.e. smallest possible links :)

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Test Instance

The latest version of the code is automatically deployed via Railway to
https://onepixel.link

You can deploy your own instance too

Development

Deploy everything (with Docker)

Simplest way to get it running is

make a ./data directory where your database will be stored
run docker-compose up

Run with hot-reload for local development

We will use docker to run an instance of database, but we will run the project using air locally

make a ./data directory where your database will be stored
run docker-compose up -d postgres
add 127.0.0.1 postgres to your /etc/hosts file ¹
run air in the root directory of the project ²

Note[1] This is because the server is configured to connect to host=postgres for the database.

Note[2]: you can also run go run src/main.go but it will not reload on changes