Discussion on: Building a URL shortening service with NodeJS and MongoDB. Deploy to Azure.

[Emin Deniz]

Sometimes it is not necessary. At my student club, we are using rebrandly with subdomain of our website. example go.compec.org/xyz
It seems long, but easier than bit.ly or tinyurl. Domain part of short url includes “go” and our club short name.
We are happy with it.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

Actually, xxx.now.sh seems shorter (with splat / regex), but I don't how short xxx can be.

Also, now.sh supports database via /api folder (or serverless / buildpacks). I should try to make a url shortener someday, perhaps...