URL shorteners like Bitly and Cuttly are incredibly popular. In this article, we are going to create a similar tool by building an API service that shortens the URLs provided to it. For each URL passed into our API, we will generate a unique ID and create a short URL with it. Then, the long URL, short URL, and unique ID will be stored in the database.
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Planning the URL shortener build process in Node.jsInitializing the app and installing dependencies with MongoDBWe made a custom demo for .\nNo really.Connecting the database to the appCreating the mongoose schema in MongoDBBuilding the URL and index routesConclusion200’s only Monitor failed and slow network requests in productionSort: