/Urly

Primary LanguagePython

A complete URL Shortener Web App

Project URL: https://urly-bd.herokuapp.com/

Overview

Url shortener in the web that enables the URl (Uniform Resource Locator) to be made considerably shorter a big web link and still direct to the desired page. This is done by using a redirect path to a web page that has a long URL.

The project is developed using Django for backend and HTML, CSS, JS for frontend.

Setup

// activate your virtualenv $ pip install -r requirements.txt

I’ll assume you have Django installed already. You can tell Django is installed and which version by running the following command in a shell prompt (indicated by the $ prefix): $ python -m django --version

  • Download the latest release
  • Create-project Urly. in an empty directory. From the command line, cd into a directory where you’d like to store your code, then run the following command: $ django-admin startproject mysite

The development server

Let’s verify your Django project works:
$ python manage.py runserver

Learn More

You can learn more in the Writing your first Django app How to Install Python packages | Pip Documentation