deno-url-shortner

This project is a personal project being written to explore Deno.land

Prerequisite:

• Deno should be installed and available in $PATH (should be executable in Shell)
• Redis should be up and running on 127.0.0.1, port 6379. In case the server details are different edit the file in src/redis_db_access.ts

How to Test it out:

To execute this application execute the below commands in a new Shell (bash is one such shell):

cd src
deno run --allow-net app.ts

It attempts to utilize redis as the backend, and generate short URLs when /generate is called. Sample for the call to generate:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"url":"https://blog.sachinnayak.info"}' http://localhost:8000/shorten

This provides a JSON response. In this JSON response a property shortUrl contains the shortened URL.

Inspiration:

I recently was reading a blog post where the individual was writing a URL shortner in NodeJS. I was wanting to explore deno.land since some time, so decided to write a URL shortener in Deno.

TBD:

• Had a failure with using localhost in redis hostname. Need to debug if this is a problem with my system or generic to deno / connect
• Cleaned up redis_db_access to use interface, so a different backend can be used. Rest of the classes have all methods / functions exposed at the top level.

Disclaimer:

This is a simple and very insecure URL Shortener written in Deno.

Do NOT expect this application to be supported. This to never planned to be PRODUCTION ready. You should NOT run this in production.