Url Shortening App

Url Shortening app built with Node API along with MongoDB and Angular. For demonstration purposes and a tutorial.

Node provides the RESTful API. Angular provides the frontend and accesses the API. MongoDB stores like a hoarder.

Installation

1) MongoDB

• MongoDB: (Local Configuration) If you have MongoDB installed on your machine, then configure it in config/database.js

• MongoDB: (Using mongo image from DockerHub) Pull Mongo image from DockerHub and start it

docker pull mongo
docker run -p 27017:27017 -d --name db mongo

Change localUrl value to 'db:27017/urlshortener' in 'config/database.js', Where 'db' is the name of mongo container.

2) NodeJs Application

1. Clone the repository: https://github.com/chamanklalwani/urlshortener.git
2. Build and Run "URL Shortener" app image:

Build the Dockerfile and tag the image as urlshortener:

docker build -t urlshortener .

Run the docker image 'urlshortener' inside a container:

docker run -p 3000:3000 -p 35729:35729 --name urlshortener --link db:db urlshortener