aklinker1/url-shortener

4 hour URL shortener challenge

URL Shortener

Simple URL shortener, built as a challenge in 4 hours! Saw the challenge on YouTube, and wanted to try it myself.

4 Hours

Within the 4 hours, I got a working product:

• Docker Setup
• API: Create shortened URLs
• API: List shortened URLs
• API: Redirect when visiting shortened URLs
• UI: Basic UI listing latest URLs and creating new URLs
• UI styling to much of what you see today (table, header, search bar)
• Heroku Deployment

After the initial 4 hours, I spent some time working on it to make it actually usable

• UI: Firebase Auth so only I can create and edit URLs
• Go 1.16 embedded FS to include UI assets in the single executable file
• Filter/search for URLs when filling out the search bar

TODO:

• API: Consume firebase auth
• Infinite scrolling to show more pages of URLs when scrolling
• Cleanup login flow

Deployments

Deployments are done locally with:

make deploy