TinyURL

Intro

A self-hostable link shortening web application written in TypeScript on top of Restify.

This backend system is a RESTful service built upon Restify while the frontend is written in React with ES6.

Usage

1. Clone the repo
2. Run npm install
3. Rename db.sample.ts into db.ts and add your MySQL crendentials into the file.
4. Run gulp compile-all to transpile your TypeScript code into Node.js.
5. Run the index.js file with node dist/index.js or using nodemon, pm2, etc to execute it.

Test

1. Run npm test to fire the tests, which mainly focus on the link converting functionality.

Cheers!