TinyApp is a full stack web application built with Node and Express that allows users to shorten long URLs (à la bit.ly). Registered users will have the ability to create, update, and delete their own links as they see fit. However, users can share the link through a /u/:link format to anyone and they will be redirected to its corresponding website. TinyApp for now is run through localhost at PORT: 8080. TinyApp common error handling is done through an alert system as shown below in the last screenshot. TinyApp uses bcrypt to hash the passwords and cookie-session for cookie encryption to give the user a secure and comfortable time while creating a short URL.
- Node.js
- Express
- EJS
- bcrypt
- body-parser
- cookie-session
- Install all dependencies (using the
npm installcommand). - Run the development web server using the
node express_server.jscommand.