This project is essentially a clone of bit.ly. Users are able to create folders, add shortened links to folders, sort groups of links within folders by create date, and click on links to go to their destination URL.
This project is part of the Turing curriculum. This was a solo project and the requirements can be found here.
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This is a pretty straight-forward implementation of a URL shortening service, built as part of the curriculum at Turing.
- Create folders to store links
- Create links that are shortened
- Sort links within folders by date created (ASC or DESC)
- Click links and be taken to the full URL
npm install to install all the dependencies needed for the project.
npm start to start the backend server.
Browse to http://localhost:3000 to run the client.
All data will be returned in the following format:
GET requests:
[
{
status: 'status message',
data: [array of data]
}
]
POST requests:
[
{
status: 'status',
message: 'friendly message',
data: [array of data with object just created]
}
]
GET /api/v1/folders returns all folders.
POST /api/v1/folders to create a folder.
GET /api/v1/folders/:id returns a folder with a specific ID.
GET /api/v1/folders/:folder_id/links returns all links for a specified folder.
GET /api/v1/links returns all links for all folders.
POST /api/v1/links to create a link.
Tests are written using Mocha, Chai, and Chai-Http.
npm test to run all tests.