Djangourlshortener .

A simple django and react application illustrating how to shorten urls

Project Setup

Setting up a virtual environment

Create a new virtual environment and activate it (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

mkvirtualenv MY_VIRTUAL_ENV
workon MY_VIRTUAL ENV

Installing required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Installing React Dependencies

npm install

Make DB migrations :

python manage.py makemigrations api
python manage.py migrate

Run tests

coverage run -m pytest

Run Django Backend

python manage.py runserver

Run React Application

npm start 

Deployment

You would usually deploy this application on a short domain name(e.g goo.gl ,bit.ly) for it to achieve it's purpose.

TODO

Tests

Configure creation of unique URLs on the front end

Configure an error toast to be displayed when a URL that has already been shortened is supplied again to be shortened