🔗 URL-Shortener

URL/Link shortener built on MERN stack.

Tech Stack 📚

A complete MERN stack project.

Demo 🎥

Setup 🛠

Prerequisites :

Make sure you have the LTS version of Node installed.
Install git for version control.
Install MongoDB locally. (Resource)

Installation :

Step 1: Fork this repo.
Step 2: Clone your forked version of this repo locally. To clone, go to your command line / terminal, cd over to an appropriate directory and type in git clone https://github.com/<your username>/url-shortener.git.
Step 3: cd url-shortener
Step 4: While in the url-shortener directory, install the frontend dependencies using npm install or yarn.
Step 5: cd server
Step 6: While in the server directory, instlal the backend dependencies using npm install.
Step 7: Run the mongodb server on port: 27017 using mongod.
Step 8: While mongod is still running, open a new tab and again cd inside the server directory and run the backend server using node server.js or using nodemon - nodemon server.js. The backend server will start on localhost:5000.
Step 9: While backend server is still running, open a new tab on the terminal and cd to the main project directory i.e. url-shortener.
Step 10: Finally start the react app using npm start. The app will start on port 3000 which can be accessed through http://localhost:3000/.

Note :

Don't forget to close all the running servers before closing the terminal/ command line.
Close all the running servers by visiting to every tab of the terminal the server is running on.
To close a running server use ctrl+c.

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License

MIT © SandeepKrSuman

Developer 😎

Made with ❤ by SandeepKrSuman.