Short-URL

Convert long urls into short urls. With added backend complexity for a production-ready build.

Features

The original url and the short url with custom path is stored as a row in the database.
When the short url is entered into the browser, the backend api will lookup the corresponding original url and perform a redirect.
The backend api will also increment the click count for a short url whenever it is used.

This app uses 6 services:

The app is packaged into a docker compose container for easy startup and deployment.

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/colin-ho/URL-Shortener.git

This web app has been configured for easy AWS ECS deployment using AWS Fargate. This step requires an AWS account and IAM permissions. More info here

Create a docker compose ecs context

docker context create ecs myecscontext
docker context use myecscontext