URL Shorty

This is a service to shorten long URLs into secure hashURLs to make it easy to share. I built this to learn Graphql and how to use it Django and React.

Right now, it is a backend service. Implementation with React is in progress.

Installation

1. Fork the repository
2. Clone the forked repository
3. Change into the cloned repository
4. Activate the virtual environment

pipenv shell

To install pipenv

    pip install pipenv

5. Run the server

python3 manage.py runserver

6. You should be able to see the Graphiql online IDE at localhost:8000/graphql

7. You can check the working of the service by making the mutation

mutation {
  createUrl(fullUrl:"https://github.com/shreyagupta30/url-shorty") {
    url {
      id
      fullUrl
      urlHash
      clicks
      createdAt
    }
  }
}

Click the play button to see the Output, something like this:

{
    "data: {
     "urls": [
         {
        "id": "1",
        "fullUrl": "https://github.com/shreyagupta30/url-shorty",
        "urlHash": "fb1ac17dee",
        "clicks": 0,
        "createdAt": "2020-08-18T07:11:11.520670+00:00"
      },
     ]
    }
}

This will create the changes in the databases. To fetch the changed URL, run the query

query {
  urls {
    id
    fullUrl
    urlHash
    clicks
    createdAt
  }
}

This is show the above mutation that your created.

Hope this helps, thank you! :D