A django app designed to make your urls pretty and less of a hassle!

Users can enter a URL e.g "https://www.hello-i-am-a-long-url.com" and get shortened one back e.g. "https://127.0.0.1:8000/UDHYX" which redirects to their original URL.

• Users should be able to enter a url into an input box on your website's front page
• Your backend will then generate a shortened path at which a User can access their url
• You must implement Python in some capacity in this application
• Store this shortened path and it's longer counterpart in a database
• No login should be required to create a shortened URL
• If User tries to access your website with a path you have stored in your database, they should get rerouted to the URL it relates to
• If User tries to access your website with a path you do not have stored in your database, they should get rerouted to the homepage where they can create a new short URL

Clone this repo and navigate to the root directory of this repo.
pipenv shell
pipenv install
cd url_shortener
python manage.py runserver

It should load on http://127.0.0.1:8000/

django

1. Create repo and link to local file
2. Bootstrap a django project using django-admin startproject app
3. Set up root route '/' and '/str:id' for dynamic id
4. Create a form with templating to ask users for URL and on submit POST URL to database and return a short URL path
5. Create out of bounds routes and error handling
6. Styling and UI updates
7. Attempt to deploy to Heroku
8. Finalise and complete task requirements

• there may be environment issues - delete and reinstall Pipfile.lock!

• Form works!
• Random string generator is an easy and straightforward way to generate a short URL path

• Deployment via Heroku with Django - static files issues
• Redirecting link to new page without 'https://'
• Difficulties setting up test suite!