cwilgenhoff / url-shortener-code-test

Url Shortener Code Test

Requirements

We'd like you to create a URL shortening service.

• It should have a route where you can send a POST request with a URL in the body, which returns a short URL.
• When you send a GET request to a previously returned URL, it should redirect to the POSTed URL.
• We'd also like a simple frontend that can create and display shortened URLs without reloading the page.
• For simplicity, don't worry about persisting the URLs between restarts (ie, we don't need it to talk to an external database).

Use whatever languages and frameworks you are comfortable with. Don't worry about getting the whole thing working flawlessly, this is more to see how you structure a program. Please don't spend more than a few hours on it.

Installation

Install all dependencies.

$ npm install

Run

Starts the application.

$ npm start

Development

Builds the application and starts its express web-server.

$ node run develop

• Important: To run in build mode, make sure you have nodemon installed globally.

$ npm install -g nodemon

Build

Generates a bundle version of the application in the public folder.

$ npm run build

Server Configuration

Configurations for the server can be set in src/server/config.js.

    const config = {
        port: process.env.PORT || 9090      // Set PORT for Express to use (defaults to 9090).
    };

Submission

Please fork this repository, write some code and update this README with a guide of how to run it.