URL Shortener

Project Overview

A full-stack URL shortening service that allows users to create shortened links for easier sharing. It includes a frontend web app, backend core service and a redirector. It supports password-protected url and custom url. It is designed with scalability.

Challenges

• Designing an efficient algorithm for generating unique short codes
• Handling normal routes, password-protected routes and custom url routes
• Desigining efficient caching strategy to optimize performance

Future Improvements

• Implement more detailed analytics
• Implement Bloom Filtering for detecting existed custom route.

Reflection

This project helped me understand the importance of database indexing and query optimization. I also learned about working on different HTTP framework(Express, Fastify) and different ORMs(Prisma, MikroORM)