Minify - URL Shortener

This is a URL shortener application built with Next.js, TypeScript and for validation Zod. All urls are saved in a Vercel Postgres database and the ui is using Shadcn with Tailwind.

Features

• Shorten any URL
• Expiration date
• Limit the maximum number of views
• Create an account to save shortend URL's
• Dashboard to update saved URL's
• QR code for url's

Prerequisites

• Vercel account
• Vercel postgres

Installation

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/arebrinkemil/minify.git

# CD in to project
cd minify

# Install node_modules
npm i

Vercel postrgres

First set up a new vercel postgres database by following the documentation

When your database is created and linked to your project, then seed the database

# Run seed script
npm run seed

Next Auth

To generate a NEXTAUTH_SECRET run this command in your terminal

openssl rand -base64 32

NEXTAUTH_URL=
NEXTAUTH_SECRET=

Localhost

# Start loclhost
npm run dev