Shorvan: A Fast Link Shortener 🚀

Welcome to Shorvan! This is a super-fast link shortener app designed to showcase real-time functionalities using WebSockets, the power of local storage, and the simplicity and speed of Astro. Shorvan is a project I created as a learning journey, exploring technologies I've never used before. I've incorporated Astro with Vanilla JavaScript/TypeScript for the frontend, and for the backend, I've spun up a separate project utilizing Bun, Elysia, and Turso.

• Backend Project: Shorvan Backend

Features 🌟

• Link Shortening: Quickly shorten your long URLs.
• Real-Time Updates: Watch the number of shortened links update in real-time with WebSockets.
• Persistence: Your shortened links are saved locally using localStorage, so they're always at hand.

🚀 Project Structure

Inside of your Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
│   └── favicon.svg
├── src/
│   ├── components/
│   │   └── Card.astro
│   ├── layouts/
│   │   └── Layout.astro
│   └── pages/
│       └── index.astro
└── package.json

Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI

👀 Want to learn more?

Feel free to check our documentation or jump into our Discord server.