url-shortener

example of a URL shortner api that could run on an Express/Node server

See Requirements for what this project is meant to do

Running this project

Use yarn!

• yarn to install dependencies
• yarn debug to run the project for development
• yarn build and then yarn start to run the program

Future Work

Here's a list of the things I would like to do for this project, especially before it would be used in any kind of production environment.

• Unit testing, especially on the Base 64 encoding
• Create a dictionary of banned words to ensure the URL shortener doesn't randonmly generate something hateful, obscene or offensive for a link
• Add ability to disable a shortened url, either with an expiration time/date or an endpoint
• Add some kind of real authentication to endpoints that require an api token
• Do further analysis on the scale this should work at to determine how many characters of base64 should be used for the Token and Short Url.