Link Shortener Paste your long link and get a shorter link You can also choose a custom ID for the link Tools and frameworks used HTML, CSS, JS NodeJS, Express, MongoDB (Mongo Atlas) Bootstrap library How does it work? nanoid package is used to generate the unique IDs for the links IDs of length 9 are used reduce the probability of collision ~2 years needed, in order to have a 1% probability of at least one collision, when 1000 IDs are generated each hour Custom IDs are also allowed MongoDB is used to map the full links to the IDs AJAX methodology is used to load the response from the /api/short endpoint When the browser does a GET request to the short link, the ID is looked up in the DB and the browser is redirected to the full link This app is currently hosted for free at herokuapp.com
