mcreng/url-shortener

An url shortener service built by ReactJS and NodeJS

url-shortener

This is a web application that provides url shortening services. I intend to learn more about front-end and back-end development through this project.

This project uses:

• ReactJS and AntDesign as front-end
• NodeJS, PostgreSQL, express, knex as back-end
• Google OAuth2 as authentication
• express-session, session-mongo and mLab as session storage
• Heroku as host

To run url-shortener locally,

• git clone https://github.com/mcreng/url-shortener.git
• Head to root and run npm i to install required dependencies
• Set up PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Google API
• Duplicate .env.example to .env.local and fill in the details
• cd server && knex migrate:latest
• Start by npm run dev

To run url-shortener on your Heroku host,

• git clone https://github.com/mcreng/url-shortener.git
• heroku create
• Set up Heroku PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Google API
• Duplicate .env.example to .env and fill in the details
• cd server && knex migrate:latest --env build
• git push heroku master
• If you are not commiting .env due to sensitive data (let's say you are also pushing to GitHub), use heroku config:add $(cat .env).