luismanuelglz/url-shortening

Frontend Mentor - Shortly URL shortening API Challenge

This is a solution to the URL shortening API landing page challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Installation
  • Install dependencies
  • Configuration
  • Run the project
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• Shorten any valid URL
• See a list of their shortened links, even after refreshing the browser
• Copy the shortened link to their clipboard in a single click
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL
• Live Site

My process

Built with

• ReactJS
• TypeScript
• Bitly

What I learned

I practiced my layout skills and learned new concepts to use the Bitly api.

Continued development

Bitly is a very popular and useful tool, which I had never explored until the time I developed this project, so for now I only know the basics of Bitly, I plan to take another look at the documentation to explore more features.

Useful resources

• Bitly Developer - Bitly's documentation explains how to manage your links and implement its API in your projects, from authentication, rate limits, managing analytics, etc.

Installation

Install dependencies

cd url-shortening
yarn

Configuration

Create a .env.local file and enter the credentials provided by Bitly. Use the .env.local.example as an example.

Run the project

yarn start

Author

• Website - Luis Manuel
• Frontend Mentor - @LuisManuelGlz
• Twitter - @LuisManuelGlz_