muskanmi / URL-Shortener

A URL shortening webapp which can be used to shorten any given URL.

URL Shortener

This repository contains the source code of a simple URL shortening web application which is used to shorten any URL.

Prerequisites:

• Node should be installed in your system.

• Mongo should be installed in your system (which is used for creating the database of this application).

Instructions:

1. Get the source code on your pc via git and navigate inside the folder through your terminal.

  git clone https://github.com/muskanmi/url-shortener

2. Move into the src folder by running:

cd src

3. Now, install all the required node dependencies by running:

  npm install

4. Run the application using:

npm run devStart

5. URL shortener web application is ready for use. You can access it at http://localhost:5000/.