Url Shortener

A simple URL shortener app written in Go.

URLs are stored in a PostgreSQL database then the database IDs are Base32 enocoded and used as the "short urls".

Features

• Submit a URL and received a shortened URL
• Lookup the destination address of a shortened URL (http://localhost:8080/dwlakj/show)

Technologies used:

• Golang
• HTMX

Running the app

Install Go (I use version 1.21 but this will very likely run on earlier versions).

Start a PostgreSQL database (via Docker Compose) and copy the contents of .env.example to .env.

docker-compose up -d
cp .env.example .env

Start the app

go run main.go

# and you should see
successfully connected to database, starting HTTP server on ":8080"

Navigate to localhost:8080 🤏