"onepixel" is an API-first URL shortener.

A URL shortener should have a short domain name, possibly 2 or 3 letter in length.
"1 pixel" is the smallest unit of a screen.
So 1px.li stands for one pixel links - i.e. smallest possible links :)

The latest version of the code is automatically deployed via Railway to
https://onepixel.link

You can deploy your own instance too

There are two databases used in this project

1. Application DB
   This stores users, shortlinks and link groups
2. Events/Analytics DB
   This stores every redirection event used for analytics and stats

For tests on CI it is better to use small embedded databases instead of spinning up a full database server.

Simplest way to get it running is

1. make a ./data directory where your database will be stored
2. run docker-compose up

We will use docker to run an instance of our databases, but we will run the project using air locally

1. make the following directories where your database will be stored
   1. ./data for postgres
   2. ./clk_data for clickhouse
   3. ./clk_logs for clickhouse logs
2. run docker-compose up -d postgres clickhouse
3. run air in the root directory of the project ¹

Note[1]: you can also run go run src/main.go but it will not reload on changes