Shortenerl

This is a URL shortening application

How to run locally

git clone this repo to your computer
- $ git clone git@github.com:billkremer/shortenerl.git
$ cd shortenerl
Install Dependencies
- $ composer install
- $ yarn
update .env
- $ cp .env.example .env
Add Key
- $ php artisan key:generate
Compile
- $ npm run dev
Run local server
- $ php artisan serve
find app at http://localhost:8000/

note: Heroku version of application uses PostgreSQL.

DB

a. Auth table: id, username, password (hashed)

b. URL table: id, userid, original link URL, shorter URL, hit count
Routes

a. login /login -- not authenticated

b. registration /, /register -- not authenticated

c. URL shortener and shortened URLs table /home -- authenticated

d. /t/? to navigate to the shortened URL which should then open the long URL -- not authenticated
Functions

a. random num / char generator 3 - 5 chars long? -- using 5
Future Features

a. Reset password ability

b. Ability to delete URLs or manage URLs

c. Custom shortened URLs

d. Consider having the shortened url be the id in the db - use hex/base 62? https://stackoverflow.com/a/1562793/7937542

e. Consider having URLs have similar padding to Sign Out on /home relative to box below.

f. Consider a error on the url page or redirect to /

g. Consider styling the URLs to look like URLs (blue and underlined) so user isn't confused

h. Add a page refresh on a shorturl click to update the hitcount. User shouldn't notice since the new tab/window will be opening with the content.

i. Consider starting at / === /login instead of /register
Double check

a. check that it's case specific -- yes, but be careful because browser will try to help & may fix.