NodeJS url shortener made rediculously simple. URL shortening is a technique which a URL may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect on a domain name that is short, which links to the web page that has a long URL.
#Example The URL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening" can be shortened to "http://mLink.com/murl". This is especially convenient for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters that may be used in a message
#Installation
- Download and install Node.js from here - https://nodejs.org/download/.
- Download and install Redis from here - https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads.
- Start Redis Server, You can find redis documentation here - http://redis.io/documentation.
- Clone project anywhere on you local machine.
- Move to project directory via terminal.
- $ sudo npm install
- $ sudo node app or $ sudo node app.js