PrakashGatiyala / reduced.to

Free Modern URL Reducer. Make sure to share love by giving it a star.🌟 Have a great day!

Reduced.to is a modern web application that reduces the length of link URL. So it's easier to remember, share and track.

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📚 Table of Contents

1. 🌐 About The Project
   • 🔥 Built With
2. 🚀 Getting Started
   • 📃 Prerequisites
   • 💻 Installation
   • 👩‍💻 Development
   • 🐳 Docker
   • 🐙 Docker Compose
   • 👷 Configuration
3. 🐱‍💻 Usage
4. 🧱 Roadmap
5. 🥇 Contributing
6. 🏆 Contributors
7. 📝 License
8. 💌 Contact

🌐 About The Project

I created this repository over 3 years ago, and have made it public for Hacktoberfest! This is a great opportunity for beginners to start their journey with contributing to open source. All PRs are welcome! :)

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🔥 Built With

List of frameworks/libraries used to bootstrap the project.

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🚀 Getting Started

📃 Prerequisites

List of things you need to run the project locally and how to install them.

• npm

  npm install npm@latest -g

💻 Installation

1. Fork / Clone this repository
2. Open the repository using the reduced.to.code-workspace file (VSCode)
3. Install NPM packages

   npm install && npm run install:all

4. Copy backend/example.env to .env and fill it properly (see below).
5. Copy frontend/example.env to .env and fill it properly (see below).
6. Run the backend:

   npm run start:backend

7. Run the frontend:

   npm run start:frontend

👩‍💻 Development

You will find 3 folders

• 🚀 root
• 🎨 reduced.to/frontend
• 📦 reduced.to/backend

Running the frontend in dev mode

1. Move to the frontend folder

   cd ./frontend

2. Run the project (it will open a new window)

   npm run dev

3. Vite will be now listening for changes in the code and reloading the solution

Running the backend in dev mode

1. Move to the backend folder

   cd ./backend

2. Run the project (be sure that you built the frontend before)

   npm run start:dev

3. Nest will be now listening for changes in the code and reloading the solution

🐳 Docker

• You can easily build your application in a docker container and run it.
• Build and run frontend instance

  docker build frontend/ -t reduced.to-front
  docker run -p 5000:5000 reduced.to-front

• Build and run backend instance

docker build backend/ -t reduced.to-back
docker run -p 3000:3000 reduced.to-back

• Simply go to your favourite browser and visit http://localhost:5000/ to see your application.

🐙 Docker compose

• In case you have docker installed, you can single-click deploy and test your changes by running the following and going to http://localhost:5000/ on your browser.

  docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up

👷 Configuration

For the minimal configuration the following settings have to be changed in their .env file:

Backend configuration

-DATABASE_URL: Database connection string

Frontend configuration

• API_DOMAIN: Domain of your backend instance

Happy Hacking !

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🐱‍💻 Usage

Simply copy and paste a URL into the provided area. Then click shorten URL! Your URL has now been shortened!

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🧱 Roadmap

• Migrate backend to NestJS
• Migrate frontend to Qwik
• Better README
• Generate QRCode
• Split front-end into components
• Better UI
  • Animations
  • Logo
  • Dark/Light mode
  • Fonts?
• Improve front-end components
• Backend tests
• Front-end Tests
• Logs
• Add a statistics page
• Add more ideas

Just create a Pull request already 😃

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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🥇 Contributing

Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star ⭐!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

🏆 Contributors

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📝 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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💌 Contact

Project Link: https://github.com/origranot/reduced.to

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