url-shortener

example of a URL shortner api that could run on an Express/Node server

See Requirements for what this project is meant to do

Running this project

Use yarn!

yarn to install dependencies
yarn debug to run the project for development
yarn build and then yarn start to run the program

Future Work

Here's a list of the things I would like to do for this project, especially before it would be used in any kind of production environment.

Unit testing, especially on the Base 64 encoding
Create a dictionary of banned words to ensure the URL shortener doesn't randonmly generate something hateful, obscene or offensive for a link
Add ability to disable a shortened url, either with an expiration time/date or an endpoint
Add some kind of real authentication to endpoints that require an api token
Do further analysis on the scale this should work at to determine how many characters of base64 should be used for the Token and Short Url.