URL Shortener micro-service

index.js

require('dotenv').config();
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const cors = require('cors');
const app = express();
var originalUrls = [];
var urls = [];
var index = 0;

// Basic Configuration
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

app.use(cors());

app.use('/public', express.static(`${process.cwd()}/public`));

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}));

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  res.sendFile(process.cwd() + '/views/index.html');
});

// Save urls
app.post('/api/shorturl/', function(req, res) {
  var pass = (req.body.url.includes("http"));
  if(!pass) res.json({error: "invalid url"});
  originalUrls.push(req.body.url);
  urls.push(String(index));
  res.json({original_url: req.body.url, short_url: index});
  index++;
});

//Access short urls
app.get('/api/shorturl/:url', (req,res)=>{
  var newUrl = originalUrls[Number(req.params.url)];
  res.redirect(newUrl);
});

app.listen(port, function() {
  console.log(`Listening on port ${port}`);
});

URLShortener.md

URL Shortener Microservice

This is the boilerplate code for the URL Shortener Microservice project. Instructions for building your project can be found at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis/back-end-development-and-apis-projects/url-shortener-microservice.

Work:https://replit.com/@blangue/boilerplate-project-urlshortener#index.js