shaz13 / shortlr

An url shortner written in nodejs using PostgreSQL

shortlr

An URL shortening service written in express

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 a live system.

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• Node Packet Manager(NPM)
• Git
• PostgreSQL

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development environment running

1. Download ZIP file or clone the repository to create your own copy.

git clone https://github.com/coding-blocks/shortlr

2. Move to the shortlr repository

cd ./shortlr

3. Install all project dependency packages via NPM

npm install

4. Set up PostgreSQL

• If you don't have PostgreSQL setup on you machine you can download it from here.

• After Installation is complete create a new PostgreSQL user shorturl with password as shorturl.

• Create a new database in PostgreSQL server with name shorturl.

5. Start the server.

npm start

And see it working on http://localhost:4000/admin

Deploying to Heroku

heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku open

Alternatively, you can deploy your own copy of the app using this button:

Authors

• Arnav Gupta -- championswimmer

See also the list of contributors who are participating in this project.

Demo