paulogdm / chop-my-url

A little example of a URL shortener application deployed to now 2.0.

Chop My Url!

A shortener URL example deployed to Now 2.0.

Live demo: chop.now.sh. The source and logs can be accessed by attaching /_src or /_logs, respectively.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on Now.

Prerequisites

To run this example locally, you need NodeJS.

Testing each API endpoint individually:

$ npm i
$ mongo_chop_user=yourdbuser mongo_chop_passnode=yourdbpass node back/handlers/chop.js
$ mongo_chop_user=yourdbuser mongo_chop_passnode=yourdbpass node back/handlers/redirect.js

Running the tests

Tests can be run by executing:

npm run test

Deployment

To deploy this example, you need to install now-cli:

$ npm i -g now

Then, simply:

$ now

Built With

• Koa - Next gen web framework for Node
• Milligram - A minimalist CSS framework
• Mongoose - Elegant mongodb object modeling for node.js

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details