ShortLah link shortener server backend

Backend for Shortlah URL shortener.

Description

Node ExpressJS backend for a URL shortener. Built with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, ReactJS, Node). Accompanying frontend repo is here.

Bootstrapped with Express-REST-API-Template.

Live demo here.

Getting Started

Dependencies

• NodeJS
• MongoDB

Installing

• Setup environment variables
  • cp .env.example .env
  • Add your MongoDB cluster password in .env
• Change MongoDB endpoint
  • In app.js, change the uri variable with your MongoDB cluster.
• Install dependencies
  • npm install

Executing program

• Run dev server
  • npm run dev
• Dev server refreshes when updated

Authors

@wenruiliau

License

MIT License