✂️ Welcome to TinyApp: Where URLs shrink faster than your socks in the dryer!! 🙌

Imagine having the power to turn "https://www.thisismyreallylongandconfusingwebsite.com/please-dont-make-me-type-this-again" into something as snappy as "https://tinyapp.com/b2xVn4"!

Whether you're sharing your favorite cat videos, sending important research papers, or secretly plotting to take over the world, TinyApp will make your URLs smaller, snappier, and totally manageable.

TinyApp Project

This project is made by 🙋‍♀️ Madiha Waqar as part of Lighthouse Labs Web Development Flex Program curriculum. TinyApp is a full stack web application that allows user to shorten long URLS. This application is built by using both front-end Javascript, HTML & CSS and back-end Node.js and Express.js technologies.

🚥 Dependencies

• bcryptjs
• cookie-session
• EJS
• Express
• Node.js

Dev Dependencies

• mocha and chai
• nodemon

🚩 Getting Started

• Clone this repository on your local machine.
• Install all dependencies (using the npm install command).
• Run the development web server using the node express_server.js command.
• Go to localhost:8080 on your browser to spread the joy!

✨ Final Product

🎯 Features

• Register

  • User have to register first to access the features of tiny app. Email field auto checks if your email is a properly-formatted email address.
  • Password field text is obscured so that it cannot be read.

• Login

  • Users must be logged in with valid credentials to view, create, edit or delete the urls that he has made.

  • Only a logged in authenticated owner of the url have access rights to perform CRUD operations on url.

  • Access to individual URL pages is restricted to their respective owners.

• Create New Links

  • Click on Create New URL link to create a new tinyurl. The link will take you to TinyUrl page where you can enter your URL to shorten it. Click Submit.

• Edit/ Update or Delete Links

  • Logged in owner of the url can delete or edit his urls.
    • After delete button is pressed the deleted url's record wont show on user's myurl page.
    • After edit/update the short url will remain the same but corresponding long url will get updated and user will get redirected to myurl page.

• _Note:

  • You can access your url link by just using shortlink like this: /u/:tinyurl where tinyurl is the shortened url created against the long url.

💡 Enjoy

Thank you for joining the TinyApp party! Remember, with my URL shortener, you can now fit more internet into your pocket. Enjoy and may your links be shorter than a cat's attention span chasing a laser pointer! Happy URL-ing! 👋