Really simple URL shortener. No fancy validation or anything at this stage. Basically just a simple project with a View, some API routes, a database connection (using EF Core) and docker for quick no-mess development.

I manually apply migrations to the database by using Add-Migration and then Script-Migration, rather than Update-Database so that there is transparency over what EF is doing when making migrations, and manual control is retained.

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1. Have Docker and .NET 5 Installed
2. From root directory, start up database using docker-compose -f database/docker-compose.yml up
3. Start application using dotnet run --project src/UrlShortener/UrlShortener.csproj
4. Navigate to localhost:5001 for the app, localhost:8080 for adminer (to explore the database; use username & password "postgres"), and you can use API endpoints of /shortener (post, body="link") and /{shortenedKey} (get).

• Better validation
• Checking against Google API of malware/blacklisted sites
• User accounts
• Custom URL - make your own URL rather than an auto-generated one
• Click counter - how often was a link clicked?