This project is the opposite of a url "shortener".

We take in a url and spit out a url (usually longer) created using a random wikipedia article's contents.

The project is powered by a javascript frontend and backend, with MongoDB as the choice to store all the original and 'wikified' urls.

Original URL: https://github.com/lennysgarage/WikiLink

Wikified URL: https://wikilink-backend.herokuapp.com/Michel-Ange-Houasse--Paris-1680--Arpajon-1730-was-a-French-painter-most-of-whose-career-was-spent-at-the-court-of-Philip-V-of-Spain-who-summoned-him-to-the-court-in-Madrid-in-1715-whilst-he-was-still-Philip-of-Anjou-Michel-Ange-had-already-trained-in-the-studio-of-his-father-Ren-Antoine-Houasse-Michel-Ange-produced-many-portraits-of-the-Spanish-royal-family-including-ones-of-the-future-king-Louis-I-He-introduced-Spain-to-mythological-and-rural-scenes-he-had-learned-from-Flemish-Baroque-art-His-taste-for-pastoral-and-bucolic-genre-scenes-resulted-in-paintings-such-as-Blind-man-s-buff--in-Spanish-La-gallina-ciega-clearly-influenced-by-Watteau-and-itself-a-clear-influence-on-Goya-s-oil-on-linen-cartoon-of-the-same-name-In-his-later-years-he-came-into-friction-over-works-for-the-royal-court-with-his-fellow-French-artist-Jean-Ranc-

It's pretty fun to mess around and get all different kind of links.

The project is being run using netlify as the frontend with automatic push to deploy.

The project is using a Heroku free dyno, so on startup the site may take a few seconds to respond.

To install the required dependencies

cd api
npm i 
cd client
npm i

In api/

create a .env file & insert
MONGO_URI=<mongodb_uri>

In client/

echo "NODE_ENV=development" > .env

Lastly open a terminal for /api & execute

npm start

And open a terminal for /client & execute

npm start

Now you can visit localhost:3000 and test out your own url "extender"