Implementation Details

Mini URL is a url shortener similar to bitly using NextJs and React. It uses a server side custom Map implementation to track the created urls and their respective slugs. This allows server side redirecting, but comes with the trade-off that the url and slug must be sent to a backend api to parse.

How to Run

First install the npm dependencies:

npm install

Next, run the development server:

npm run dev

Finally, open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to view the website.

Testing

Was not able to finish setting up tooling for automated testing.

First install the npm dependencies:

npm install

Next, run the development server:

npm run test

Tools used

Used ChatGPT as a general reference to quickly reference ts APIs. This is how I found the UUID library used in encoding the url slugs