Shortify

• A URL shortening webapp made with Nodejs, Express and MongoDB.

• You have to provide the full URL and this webapp will convert it into its corresponding small URL.

• Uses shortid package (shortid creates amazingly short non-sequential url-friendly unique ids).

Installation

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• Clone the repo in your local machine:-

$ git clone https://github.com/GargiChakraverty/Shortify.git

• Then inside terminal install node_modules by:-

$ npm install

• Make a .env file in your root directory and paste your MongoDB connection string there.

• Finally run on terminal:-

$ npm start

• Go to localhost:5000