URL Shortener project

A simple and easy to use URL shortening service

Features

• Simple intuitive UI
• Fast performance using Redis as the primary data store
• Idempotent requests: existing URLs return the same shortened result
• Re-hash on key collision

Tech Stack

Client: React, TailwindCSS

Server: Asp.Net 8, C#, Redis, Docker

Optimizations

Utilized Redis as the primary database for optimal performance

Run Locally

You will need to spin up a docker redis instance (update the connection string for redis in the appsettings.json file)

  docker run -d -p 5002:6379 --name my-redis-container redis