remykarem / url-shortener

Short'ner

URL shortener written using Python's FastAPI framework, Vue.js and UIKit. The FastAPI framework uses SQLAlchemy for ORM. Data is persisted in Postgresql.

The app is available at https://url-shortener-take-home.herokuapp.com.

Dev

Install the Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the app server with hot reload

uvicorn shortener.main:app --reload  

Tests

To run the unit tests, run

python -m pytest

Design

A URL hash consists of 9 digits, which are separated by 3 dashes, with the hope that the hashes are more readable.

We use digits-only hash because we don't think there will be high traffic from this app 🙂.