Dcard-URL-Shortener

Dcard-URL-Shortener

About The Project

This is Dcard's homework about implementing url shortener. This repository includes all the modules with the mono-repo architecture. Also, if you want to know more about this homework detail, you can refer to this spec.

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Built With

The following are the packages used in this Golang project.

• gin-gonic: as framework
• go-pg: to connect Postgres DB and store url information.
• go-redis: to enhance the performance of redirecting url request.
• go-migrate: to create db table.
• google-uuid: to create a new uuid as a shorten url.
• golang/mock, ginkgo and gomega: to do the unit test
• golangci: to check the style

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Getting Started

Before starting this program, please make sure that your docker is running.

Unit Testing

This project has unit tests with ginkgo framework for DAO and toolkit in pkg directory.

1. Test whole project

   make dc.test
   

2. Test pkg

   make dc.pkg.test
   

Style Check

This project uses golangci to check the style.

1. Check whole project's style

   make dc.lint
   

2. Check only modules' style

   make dc.internal.lint
   

3. Check only pkg's style

   make dc.pkg.lint
   

Build Image

1. Build shorten url api image

   make dc.image
   

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Future Work

1. This time, I only use google-uuid to simply generate shorten url. The next goal is to adopt a suitable shorten url algorithm.
2. This implementation is kind of like image-to-url converter. So I want to extend this project to contain image-to-url converter in the future.

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