[Redis Hackathon] Koochikok (URL Shortener)

Mohammad Mohammadalian — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:28:45 +0000

Overview of My Submission

this project is a URL shortener that uses Redis as its primary database and MongoDB as a secondary database

Submission Category:

Wacky Wildcards

Language Used

Node.js

Link to Code

mhmda-83 / koochikok

a URL shortener that uses Redis as its primary database and MongoDB as a secondary database

Koochikok

A URL shortener that uses Redis as its primary database and MongoDB as a secondary database

How it works

How the data is stored:

The URL data is stored using JSON data type and the key is URL:{entityId}

How the data is accessed:

using RedisSearch module by search through "shorten_identifier" field of json documents

How to run it locally?

cp .env.example .env.docker

docker-compose up -d

Prerequisites

Docker & Docker compose are required (tested with version 20.10.17 of docker and 1.29.2 of docker-compose)

Local installation

import Postman Collection and Postman Environment to use the APIs

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Getting Started

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Additional Resources / Info

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