URL Shortener

Frontend is hosted on https://baby-url-7d4727a2b0fa.herokuapp.com/login
Backend is hosted on https://baby-url-backend-7b27c2fd1375.herokuapp.com/
However, deploying the database on Heroku is not part of the free plan and thus the database has not been deployed.

Run this app locally

Installation

For frontend:

cd frontend
npm i

For backend:

cd backend
python -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

For PostgreSQL database: Install pgAdmin4 from https://www.pgadmin.org/download/

brew update
brew install postgresql@14

Database Setup

1. Open pgAdmin4 and create new database urlshortener
2. Change values in backend/urlshortener/postgresqlclient/__init__.py if needed
3. In pgAdmin4 query tool, run the migration script found in backend/resources/db/migration

Quickstart

For frontend, in the frontend directory:

npm start

For backend, in the backend directory:

flask --app urlshortener run --debug