url-shortener-back

Backend for URL shorteners

Instructions to build and run

• Make sure you have node/npm installed as well as Docker. The code was built using node v21.1.0 and Docker Desktop for Mac
• export DB_PASSWORD=<password>. Set <password> to any password you'd like to use for connecting to the postgres DB
• ./create-docker-network.sh
• cd database
• ./build.sh $DB_PASSWORD
• ./run.sh. The docker container should come up with no errors, check the logs (docker logs url-shortener-back-db)
• cd ..
• npm install
• npm run build
• ./build-docker.sh $DB_PASSWORD
• ./run-docker.sh
• Check that the container comes up with no errors (docker logs url-shortener-back)
• Check that the server is up (load http://localhost:3001/in a browser)

You can also run a dev version of the server outside of docker using npm start