It is a microservice project as required by freecodecamp. This is built using the boilerplate from this repo. The service can be seen live at https://prong-justice.glitch.me/.
The main file is server.js while the handler.js contains the handler functions which in return uses the models.js for the Schema used in mogoDB.
- It can POST a URL to
https://prong-justice.glitch.me/api/shorturl/newand I will receive a shortened URL in the JSON response. Example :{"original_url":"www.google.com","short_url":1} - If an invalid URL is passed that doesn't follow the
http(s)://www.example.com(/more/routes)format, the JSON response will contain an error like {"error":"invalid URL"} NOTE: the submitted url is considered valid site if it passes the function dns.lookup(host, cb) from the dns core module. - If API is hit with shortened URL, it will be redirected to the original link.
- The provided Short URL will be a counter which will get increased by one each time it is given to a particular url.
POST https://prong-justice.glitch.me/api/shorturl/new - body (urlencoded) : url=https://www.google.com