I want to learn more languages. Mostly, I'm interested in:
- Learning the basics and best practices of the language
- How to structure a project, and development workflow
- Testing, and tools that help a TDD cycle
- Deployability to Heroku
This is what I think the example project needs:
- Uses HTTP
- Has some sort of write workload
- Requires storage/state that can remain in-memory
- Straightforward to test
- Benchmarkable, if I choose to do that at some point
I need something interesting to build, but not too complex that it would take a long amount of time or result in immense frustration. I think a URL shortener is a good compromise of the requirements above.
302 Redirect to this page
Create a new short URL, and respond with 201 Created along with the path to
the token as the body (ex: /abc123).
Each shorten request will create a new token, regardless if it already exists as another token (mostly for simplicity and performance).
Ideally, we would URL-decode and validate the URL, but I'm not concerned with
this to start. For now, it should respond with 400 Bad Request if the url is
blank.
302 Redirect to the full URL, or 404 Not Found if the token was not found.