vcolesdev / vcolesdev-fcc-url-shortener-api

URL shortener microservice built with NodeJS, TypeScript, and Express.

Vcolesdev - URL Shortener Microservice

Build a full stack JavaScript app that is functionally similar to this: https://url-shortener-microservice.freecodecamp.rocks.

Overview

• This is a URL shortener microservice that takes a URL and returns a shortened URL.

Features

• Express.js
• Node.js

Extra Credit

• nodemon
• TypeScript, tsc

To Do

Description

This is a URL shortener microservice.

Requirements

• You can POST a URL to /api/shorturl and get a JSON response with original_url and short_url properties. Here's an example: { original_url : 'https://freeCodeCamp.org', short_url : 1 }

• When you visit /api/shorturl/<short_url>, you will be redirected to the original URL.

• If you pass an invalid URL that doesn't follow the valid http://www.example.com format, the JSON response will contain { error: 'invalid url' }

License

MIT | [e-mail]