This backend application works on your local efficiently . It is a simple URL shortener written in Golang. The main purpose of this project is to create This is a simple URL shortener written in Golang.

There are 2 APIs in this application namely

1. localhost:9808/create-short-url - This API takes the long url and a unique ID as input and returns the generated shortened URL. (This is a POST API).
2. localhost:9808/DvobfWfx - This API takes the 8 unique character value assigned by the algorithm and redirects you to the lonk URL. (This is a GET API).

• Fork my repo and clone it onto your local.
• Install Redis on you local if you dont have by using brew install redis , then use brew services start redis to start the Redis on your local.
• Make sure that port 9808 is not being utilized anywhere else. You can change the port on main.go to any other available port if needed.
• Now use go run main.go to run the service.
• Now open postman and do a POST request on https://localhost:9808/create-short-url with JSON body as { "long_url": "long_url_that_you_want_to_shorten", "user_id" : "put_in_a_unique_user_id_here" } Your response should be something like below { "message": "short url created successfully", "short_url": "https://localhost:9808/9Zatkhpi" }
• You can use the 2nd api to redirect to the actual website with long url.

• If you like the application and would like to work on it then please fork the repository, make changes according to your needs and create a pull request. I will review. I suggest people to raise an issue and dockerise the backend service. I have also attached the Dockerfile above. I have hosted the docker image on Azure and it works fine.
• Try creating a simple frontend for the application as well.