URL Shortener website

This website takes a url and shortens it to another link. ( Note that the site has been hosted on vercel, so sometimes the resulting site might not be smaller than the original site. )

Other Links -

Link to site

Link to frontend repo of this project

How to use on your laptop -

Clone this repo and open a terminal in the same folder. Now, in this folder create a .env file and write the following code in it :

MONGO_URI = "mongodb://localhost:27017"

FRONTEND_URL = "http://localhost:3000"

After doing so, go to the terminal and write the following command :

mongod

Then, open another terminal without closing the previous one and write the following command :

npm i
node .\server.js

The backend will be running after this. Then, run the frontend code and your the site will be functional on your local computer.