kroegen/playworks-test

URL Shortener with Nodejs (like bitly or shorturl)

Test task

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Create a URL Shortener with Nodejs (like bitly or shorturl)

Our server should support two routes:

1. receive a long URL, shorten it, save and send back
2. resolve the actual redirect from shorten link to the original

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playworks-test

Project setup

npm install

Edit config files (server/bin/config.json)

cp server/bin/config.json.sample server/bin/config.json

Run server

npm run start

See http://localhost:3000

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To get your link shorten visit /encode route with query param url The url should start with http://, https:// etc.

Example

http://localhost:3000/encode?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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Then you can use your shortlink and the server will redirect you to the desired page

Example

http://localhost:3000/{shortlink}