Project github.com/AmazingAkai/URL-Shortener

A fun URL shortener built with Go, HTMX, Templ, TailwindCSS and PostgreSQL (GoTTH) stack. This url shortener also comes with browser extensions for chrome (or chrome based browsers) and firefox.

Setting up database

Without Docker

CREATE ROLE url_shortener WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'url_shortener';
CREATE DATABASE url_shortener OWNER url_shortener;
CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;

With Docker

docker compose up -d db

Configuring Environment

cp .env.example .env

Fill .env with your database credentials.

Running Migrations

make migrate STEPS=1 # number of steps

Running (Development)

Build the application

make build-tailwind
make build-templ
make build

Run the application

./build/main

Running (Production)

Build the application

docker build -t url-shortener .

Wait for docker to build the application and run it using:

docker compose up -d