tinyalias

TinyAlias

A url shortener Go app, which can easily be deployed to Heroku/Dokku/Flynn.

Powers https://tinyalias.com

Installation

This installation guide assume you have already have installed postgres and heroku-cli

• Populate these 2 sql scripts: init.sql and schema.sql

• Create .env file in code dir with these values:

  • DATABASE_URL : postgres db uri
  • APP_NAME : app name e.g. test-tinyalias
  • BASE_URL : for local run use localhost:5000/
  • GOOGLE_API_KEY : used for Google safebrowsing API
  • SESSION_AUTHENTICATION_KEY : used to auth cookie field
  • SESSION_ENCRYPTION_KEY : used to encrypt cookie field

Local Run

• go install ./cmd/... && heroku local