Link Shortener

Full-stack application based on MongoDB, Express, ReactJS, NodeJS technologies.

The main idea is to convert giving links by the user and provide a short version followed by the original link.

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Getting Started

• Install Node.js;
• To set up the environment, run the command: npm install;
• To run the application in development mode, run the command npm run dev;
• To create an artifact for client deployment, run the command npm run client:build

Application settings

For the correct application running, it is necessary to create the config directory in the root of project. After that create the default.json file in this folder.

{
    "port": Config desired port,
    "jwtSecret": "String for jwt encryption",
    "mongoUri": "Config mongodb database",
    "baseUrl": "Base web-application url"
}

For creation your own mongodb cluster follow this link

Build with

• NPM
• React
• React Router
• Webpack
• Express
• Mongoose

Server dependencies

• npm install express mongoose
• npm install -D nodemon concurrently (concurrently serves for launch simultaneously server and client parts)
• npm i config
• npm i bcryptjs
• npm i express-validator
• npm i jsonwebtoken
• npm i shortid
• npm install --save-dev cross-env

Client dependencies

• npm i materialize-css@next
• npm i react-router-dom

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.