Stn

Shorten your links, share it easily

Table of Contents

• Description
• Live Demo
• Main Features
• Routes
• Database Schema
• Tech Stack
• Run Locally
• Contributing
• License

Description

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Stn is a web-based app for shortening long links & managing them in one place. It is written in Go with minimal dependencies. In addition to making link sharing easier, I also created this to learn more about web server & its interactions with client & database.

Live Demo

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Check out the web app here:

Main Features

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Shorten a Long Link

Redirect the Short Link

View Engagements

Manage Links

Routes

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Method	Pattern	Description
GET	/users/signup	Show the sign up page.
POST	/users/signup	Register a user.
GET	/users/login	Show the login page.
POST	/users/login	Authenticate a user.
POST	/users/logout	Log out a user from the app.
GET	/	Show the home page.
GET	/:backhalf	Redirect to the original link.
GET	/links/list	Show links created by a user.
GET	/links/create	Show the page to shorten a long link.
POST	/links/create	Shorten a long link.
GET	/links/:id	Show the details of a link.
GET	/links/:id/edit	Show the page to edit a link.
PUT	/links/:id/edit	Edit a link.
DELETE	/links/:id	Delete a link.

Database Schema

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erDiagram
    USER |o--o{ LINK : "shortens"
    USER {
        string id PK
        string email 
        string password
        datetime date_joined
    }
    LINK {
        string id PK
        string url
        string back_half
        int engagements
        string user_id FK
        datetime created_at
        datetime updated_at
    }

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Tech Stack

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• Language: Go 1.22
• DBMS: MySQL
• Database Migration: migrate
• Session Management: SCS
• UI: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Run Locally

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Development

• Make sure you have Go 1.22, MySQL, migrate, & Make installed on your computer. Run these commands to check whether the tools are already installed. The terminal will output the version number if it is installed.

  go version

  mysql --version

  migrate -version

  make --version

• Connect to the MySQL server by providing a user name & password.

  mysql -u root -p

  Then create a database. You can name it as stn.

  CREATE DATABASE stn CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

• Clone the repo.

  git clone https://github.com/nadiannis/stn.git

  cd stn

• Make a copy of .env.example file & rename it to .env.

  cp .env.example .env

  Connect the app to the database by writing the information about the database you use in the .env file.

  # example
  
  DB_USER=stn
  DB_PASS=password
  DB_PROTO=tcp
  DB_HOST=localhost
  DB_PORT=3306
  DB_NAME=stn

• Install the dependencies.

  go mod tidy

• Apply migrations.

  make db/migrations/up

• Run the server. The web server will run on port 8080.

  make run/web

Format & Check the Code

Run this command to tidy the dependencies, format the code, & vet the code.

make audit

Contributing

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You can contribute to this project by creating an issue or pull request.

License

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This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.