DASH

Distributed Address Shortening Hub

Overview

DASH - Distributed Address Shortening Hub is a decentralized application designed to shorten URLs. It leverages Cloudflare network to ensure fast and reliable short links.

Features

• Decentralized: Utilizes cloudflare and it's vast network for fast serving.
• Secure: Self hosted, so you manage your data.
• User-Friendly: Simple and intuitive interface for easy URL shortening.

Deploy

Requirements

1. Login to cloudflare, create a worker project named dash-api and create another pages project named dash-web

2. Generate a Cloudflare api token following this link: https://link.shovon.me/wrangler-token

3. Create a KV in cloudflare and copy the id. Follow this for more info: https://link.shovon.me/kv-id

4. Crate an account on NeonDB and get the connection string. Follow this guide if needed: https://link.shovon.me/neon-string

5. Create a JWT secret from here (length 32): https://link.shovon.me/gen-jwt or run this in terminal node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('hex'))"

Deploy With GitHub Actions

1. Create a new repo using this template

2. Goto the repo Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions. On Repository secrets section add these secrets

Name	Value	Requirement
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN	Token generated from requirements step 2	Required
CLOUDFLARE_KV_ID	KV ID from requirements step 3	Required
NEON_DATABASE_URL	DB URL string from requirements step 4	Required
JWT_SECRET	JWT secret from requirements step 5	Required
DEFAULT_USER	Default username for login	Required
DEFAULT_PASSWORD	Default password for login	Required
API_CUSTOM_DOMAIN	Custom domain for the short link	Optional

3. Goto the Actions tab on the repo, select Deploy API and Web action, select Run workflow, branch main, Run workflow

Manual Deployment

1. Clone this repo locally and run pnpm install

2. Open apps/api/wrangler.toml, replace the {{KV_ID}} from with KV ID from requirements step 3. If you are going to use a custom domain for the short link, uncomment line 4 and replace {{CUSTOM_DOMAIN}} with your custom domain.

3. Create a .env file in apps/api/ and fill in NEON_DATABASE_URL, DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_PASSWORD

4. Put the Neon database string on worker secret using: pnpm db:set

5. Put the JWT secret on worker using: pnpm jwt:secret:set

6. Run pnpm worker:deploy:api to deploy the api

7. Create a .env file in apps/web/ and fill in NEXT_PUBLIC_WORKER with the custom domain or the worker url got from previous command

8. Run pnpm pages:deploy:web to deploy the web client

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch:

git checkout -b feature-branch

3. Make your changes and commit them:

git commit -m "Description of changes"

4. Push to the branch:

git push origin feature-branch

5. Create a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0 License. See the COPYING file for details.

Contact

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