⚡ Link.To

URL Shortener using Flask and Redis

⚡ What does LinkTo do?

Give it a link and it will shorten it for you. It'll throw in some analytics too for your pleasure.

⚡ What does it have?

• URL Shortening
• Analytics (fancy charts with ChartJS)
• Multi-user (using ACID)
• Concurrency (with Gunicorn WSGI)

⚡ How do I run it?

To run LinkTo locally, you will need Pipenv, Python3 and Redis.

• Install dependencies with pipenv install
• Fire up a redis-server with redis-server. It ships with sensible deafults!
• Finally, let's run the app pipenv run python app.py and witness your handiwork!
• That's all!

⚡ Why/How was it built?

Link.To was built using Flask with Redis in the database layer as a means to explore key-value store type of (NoSQL) databases.

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