Project Title & Description

URL Shortening Sample Applications using node js

Prerequisites

You need to create mongo database with two collections.

• counters to hold the sequence value
• urls to hold the url and shortened value

Atleast create counters collections to initialize and set counter = 1
Run following commands using mongo shell

use url_shortener
db.counters.insert({ _id: 'url_count', seq: 1 })
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Quick Start and Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/mohasinsutar/url-shortener myapp
$ cd myapp
$ npm install
$ node app

Acknowledgments

• This example is based on the tutorial given in https://coligo.io/create-url-shortener-with-node-express-mongo/