URL Shortener

A SpringBoot project which shortens URLs and redirects short URLs to the origin


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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage

About The Project

As already many services are available, e.g. bit.ly, to create short URLs this project is yet another service which implemented by using the Kotlin programming language and provides identical functionality

Built With

• SpringBoot
• Kotlin

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Getting Started

The following steps give instructions on setting up the project locally. As the application is a simple SpringBoot app you can run it as well on your cloud environments and deploy it there.

Prerequisites

Define port and the URL of your website

• application.properties file

  server.port=8080
  base_url=localhost:8080

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/rhaeckl/url-shortener-app.git

2. Run the SpringBoot application

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Usage

How the application can be used is documented in the Swagger UI which can be found here:

http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui

Contact

Robert Häckl - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/rhaeckl/url-shortener-app

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