URL-Shortener

A web application for shortening you URL.

Features

• transforming long, ugly URLs into shorts
• simply copy the short link
• redirect to the original URL through the shortened URL

Project Installation Process

1. Please make sure that Node.js and npm are installed.
2. Open Terminal and clone this project to your local computer.
3. Install the required dependencies :

npm i express@4.17.1 express-handlebars@4.0.2 

4. Install mongoose :

npm i mongoose@5.9.7 

5. Install nodemon :

npm i nodemon 

6. After installation is complete, start the server :

npm run dev 

7. If you see the message below, it means the program is running successfully :

App is running on localhost:3000
mongodb connected! 

8. You can access it through this URL :

http://localhost:3000  

Development Tools

• Node.js 14.16.0
• Express 4.17.1
• Express-Handlebars 4.0.2
• Bootstrap 5.0.2
• MongoDB
• mongoose 5.9.7