API Project: URL Shortener Microservice

About

This is a simple URL shortener project

Endpoints:

Endpoints	Description
POST /api/shorturl/new	Register a URL and create a short URL for it
GET /api/shorturl/{short_url}	Redirect to the original URL previously registered

Example output:

• {"original_url":"https://freecodecamp.org","short_url":"1904412960"}
• {"error":"invalid url"}

How to use:

Be sure to change the uri variable in database.js according to your own MongoDB server. It's also possible to just create a .env file and store this information there in order to keep it hidden and safe. Then, just run on terminal:

npm install
npm start