URL shortener
By
@tosterabgx
- 3 Devlogs
- 7 Total hours
Just my url shortener.
Ship #1
Hi again!
My url shortener was a small but pretty cool project, which I really liked building. While it’s not very competitive, comparing to other widely used url shorteners, this one I built myself and I love it. Hope you enjoy it too! Thanks for reading.
2h 42m 35s logged
Divide and conquer (your links) 
Now users can track number of clicks on their links and even delete them!
New stuff:
- separate id for control url (/manage/:code)
- click count
- delete button
- 404 page
When a new link is created, two codes are generated with nanoid (of length 7 and 21). The second one is used for the control url to manage it.
3h 20m 46s logged
And that’s it?
Hi again 
Made website live on my domain thanks to nest! I have finished the basic functionality. Unique codes are generated with nanoid of length 7, which is not that collision-proof, but that’s alright 
Next, I would like to add stats for your urls, stay tuned!
50m 23s logged
URL shortener!
because why not!
While doing bigger projects like chat or marten my reels-fried brain got a little bit bored, so I thought about more project ideas. Those were either too complex, or something like… this. 
Anyway, I will use:
- Old classic html + css
- ExpressJS
- MongoDB (because I freaking love it
)
