url-shortener | URL shortener service made with Ruby and React.js | Application Framework library

url-shortener is a Ruby library typically used in Server, Application Framework, Ruby On Rails applications. url-shortener has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This projects demos a URL Shortener service using Ruby/Sinatra as the back-end and Reac.js/Redux as the front-end. This is a single-page application that reacts to actions performed by the user and keeps an internal state on both back-end and front-end. On the back-end I decided to use Sinatra to serve as an API to the front-end. In the Ruby world, this tech has been proved to be ideal for when a scalable and light-weight API is needed on comparison to Ruby on Rails and others. I also decided to use SQLLite as a persistence database, only for simplicity reasons. Ideally this project should use a mix of PostgreSQL and Redis to store and cache data. As for testing, I’ve used Rspec to code integration tests using the API endpoints. The front-end uses React.js as the UI library and Redux as the internal state management system. Testing it’s performed using Jest and Enzyme to achieve a DSL similar to Rspec. Hence, we obtain a real-world application capable of scaling on different ends. One caveat with this app, it’s that all links are public. Since we don’t have user accounts, once a short link it’s created, no other person can create a second one that points to the same URL. Thus, all short links are static and global.