bajo

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Bajo

Bajo is a URL shortening service written in Go.

Features

The fundamental features of this project are as follows:

• Allow users to submit a URL of arbitrary length and receive a shortened URL.
• Maintain a persistent, database backend mapping between submitted URLs and shortened URLs.
• Redirect users to the submitted URL when the shortened URL is clicked.

With the fundamentals in place, some nice-to-have features are listed below:

• Give users the ability to submit a custom shortened URL key.
• Provide click statistics for shortened URLs.

Tests

Unit tests can be run within the container by executing the following commands:

docker-compose build
docker-compose run bajo ginkgo