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FCC Zipline Series by strongeleeroy
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Create a URL Shortener with Node.js and MongoDB

URL shorteners are very useful. Remembering long and tedious URL addresses, or sharing 100 character URLs with your peers is not what we would call, convenient. That’s why we have services such as the Google URL Shortener, Bitly or TinyURL.

We are going to replicate the functionality that these pages offer to some extent. We’ll start off by creating an API using Node.js and the Express framework, and will integrate with a MongoDB instance to store information making use of Mongoose.

The functionality is quite straightforward, we must implement two endpoints in our application:

  • /new/URL_TO_SHORTEN: Creates a new short URL for the provided long URL.
  • /SHORT_URL: Will redirect to the long version of the provided short URL.

Instead of babbling around, let’s set up the project and install all of our dependencies.

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FCC Algorithm Challenges by strongeleeroy
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Create a Request Header Parser Microservice with Node.js

Create a Request Header Parser Microservice in Node.js

This time, we are going to be creating a request header parser microservice in Node.js. Keep in mind that I’ll be using a set-up similar to  that used by the previous two tutorials; for those who have not read them, that means that we’ll be using Express, and code our app using ECMAScript 6 thanks to Babel.

Feel free to go though the creation of a simple Express app post, as well as the set-up for using ECMAScript 6 within your node app.

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FCC Algorithm Challenges by strongeleeroy

FCC Bonfire Series 129: Spinal Tab Case

Hello campers of young and old, today, we are going to be converting strings to spinal-tab-case. If you did not know about spinal-tab-case, well, you do now. You just-saw-it-twic… thrice!

Spinal case simply removes all spaces and sets dashes instead, while having the string be all lower-case characters. It sounds easy to achieve, we are replace wizards after all; but we’ll see that some cases might not be so straightforward.

First thing that comes to mind is probably:

function spinalCase(str) {
  return str.replace(/ /g, '-').toLowerCase();
}

We first replace all spaces with dashes, and then get rid of capital letters. And you see, that works for strings such as:

spinalCase('Hello world!'); //-> hello-world!

spinalCase('I want to see the world BURN.'); //-> i-want-to-see-the-world-burn.

But how about these other case?

spinalCase('Hey_I_got_you_this_time'); //-> hey_I_got_you_this_time

Let’s get rid of those underscores too!

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