URL Shortener

A simple URL shortener written in Clojure.

Tech Used

• Clojure: The primary programming language for this project.
• Reitit: Routing library for handling HTTP requests.
• Muuntaja: Handle encoding/decoding of HTTP request and response.
• Ring: A Clojure web applications library.
• Carmine: Redis client for Clojure, used for storing shortened URLs.
• org.clojure/data.codec: Used in base64 encoding for URL hashes.

Prerequisites

• Leiningen
• Redis

Usage

1. To shorten, send a POST request to /shorten with the long URL in the request body.

Example

1. Shorten a URL:

   curl -X POST -d '{"url": "http://example.com"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:3000/shorten

TODO

• Implement the front end using ClojureScript.