I Built Bitly Clone with Redis, Express Svelte and Node ( RESN)

Overview of My Submission

I always wanted to build my own URL shortener that could give metrics like how many times the URL was visited. I had always been busy to try, but redis hackathon felt like perfect opportunity for me to work on this. So I decide to use this opportunity to build myself a URL shortener. I built it using redis as primary database where it uses Redis JSON to store URL details and RedisTimeSeries to store usage metrics.

The project has two parts a server, provides REST API and is built using ExpressJS. The server is also responsible to interface with Redis. I'm using official Javascript redis package and Redis OM for Node.js to interface with redis database to save and retrieve data.

And, another is the client, that is build with Sveltekit. It provides web UI where users can create short URLs and view the metrics in beautiful looking charts.

You can view the live demo of client at https://urlui.vercel.app

Submission Category:

MEAN/MERN Maverics

Video

Language

JS/TS/Node.js

Link to Code

lohanidamodar / redis-hack-urlshortner

URL Shortener app built for redis x dev hackathon

URL Shortener with Node.JS and Redis

A URL shortener application build with ExpressJS, Redis and SvelteKit. Shorten URLs and also get link visit history.

Live Demo

Table of Contents

• Screenshots
• Overview video
• How it works
  • How the data is stored:
  • How the data is accessed:
• How to run it locally?
  • Prerequisites
  • Local installation
    • Running the server
    • Running the Client
  • Environment Variables
• Deployment
  • Vercel
  • Let's get connected:
• More Information about Redis Stack
  • Getting Started

Screenshots

Overview video

Here's a short video that explains the project and how it uses Redis:

How it works

How the data is stored:

The project uses redis json to store Url records. Each record has following properties

• originalUrl: string
• shortName: string
• createdAt: date
• updatedAt: date

To easily work with redis project uses Redis OM for Node.js.

1. Schema definition

   // server/app/om/url.js
   import { Entity, Schema } from 'redis-om'
   import client from './client.js'
   class Url extends

   …

View on GitHub

Additional Resources / Info

Home Page

Create new Short URL

History

QR Code

Hourly and Daily Metrics using RedisTimeSeries

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Comments

[Niraj Kafle]

woo cool..

[Damodar Lohani]

Thank you!