An URL Shortener Which Can Be Even Hosted on GitHub Pages with Help Of jsonstore.io : FossURL

Publish Date: Dec 16 '18

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Do you guys remember my old article :

Building a Simple URL Shortener With Just HTML and Javascript

Palash Bauri 👻 ・ Aug 16 '18

In that article I discussed about building your own URL Shortener with jsonstore.io as database which can be even hosted on any Static Site Hosting Service even in GitHub/GitLab Pages.

Actually before writing that article I built an URL Shortener called FossURL and the article includes minimal code chunks to build bare-bones of your own URL Shortener.

bauripalash / fossurl

Your Own Url Shortner Without any fancy server side processing and support for custom url , which can even be hosted on GitHub Pages

What is Fossurl

Fossurl is an simple URL Shortener Which Can Be Hosted For Free in Github/Gitlab Pages or in Static Site Hosting Service and It doesn't need you to buy any server!

🎯 Goal

Implementing a Simple URL Shortner which can be used without need of any hardcore server side processing and can be hosted on Static Site Hostings such as GitHub/Gitlab Pages

💻 Stack

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Database : jsonconnect.com (Previously , jsonstore was used but several downtimes forced me to switch to jsonbox.io, then to jsonconnect as jsonbox went offline)

Jsonconnect.com is a fork of Jsonbox.io - learn more on the project's homepage.

🛠️ Features

It's fast
It doesn't require any hosting server
You can use it just by forking the repo and running a script

Where is my data stored?

The connection between your shorten URL and the long one is…

View on GitHub

Even the project was trending on Product Hunt. After these incidents I got few contributors and many improvements was done!😊 Thanks To The All Contributors❤

What Was The Goal? 🎯

Actually The goal was to build a simple URL Shortener which can be hosted with GitHub Pages and doesn't need any costly server to host it, I knew it was not gonna be Super Secure because everything was done in client side.

What Was The Inspiration? 🌠

Ah Actually There was No Inspiration 😂 , I was looking for a free URL Shortener with support for custom domain, at last I found some services but found that those had some limitations such as limited link creation per day, limited clicks and so on!
So , I decided I'll build my own URL Shortener! And now you can see the result!❤

I could have built that with Node , Python or PHP but I wanted something different but also simple.

What FossURL isn't 😑

Super Turbo Nitro Fascinating Amazing Dazzling Fast 😉
Most Secure URL Shortener of the universe 😉

What's New In That So-called 'v2.0' 😎

Improved Speed
New UI inspired by dev.to
Removed All 3rd-party libraries

Screenshot 🎉

So, I guess that's enough for today, feel free to contribute to FossURL , It'll be so kind of you ❤

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Comments 13 total

kambala yashwanthDec 16, 2018

Great Man , well use of jsonstore.io/, Really good idea.
Correct me if I am wrong
Adrian B.G.Dec 16, 2018

Looks nice but is kinda false ads, it uses an 3rd party hosting.
- Palash Bauri 👻Dec 17, 2018
  
  I changed the title mentioning jsonstore
Fran GonzálezDec 16, 2018
While it's a nice project the title and idea of the article is totally clickbaity. You're just hosting the front-end of the app in GitHub Pages, you can do that with any idea that you have and not just with an URL shortener. As long as you're using a server to store things, whether it's yours or not, it's not fully on GitHub Pages.
- Palash Bauri 👻Dec 17, 2018
  
  Actually , I didn't intended to make the title like clickbait..
  
  The main intention of the whole article was last two points ,
  
  What FossURL isn't 😑
  
  And
  
  What's New In That So-called 'v2.0'
  
  At first I was thinking of title FossURL 2.0 Released but it was little awkward , so I shifted to the kind-of-tagline.
  
  I apologise for any inconvenience.
- Palash Bauri 👻Dec 17, 2018
  
  I changed the title mentioning jsonstore
АнонимDec 16, 2018
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- Palash Bauri 👻Dec 17, 2018
  
  I'm also even disliking myself for that choosing such touchy title.
  
  Actually , I didn't intended to make the title like clickbait..
  
  The main intention of the whole article was last two points ,
  
  What FossURL isn't 😑
  
  And
  
  What's New In That So-called 'v2.0'
  
  At first I was thinking of title FossURL 2.0 Released but it was little awkward , so I shifted to the kind-of-tagline.
  
  I apologise for any inconvenience.
  
  I'll add a notice about jsonstore.io on the top
  - raslanoveDec 17, 2018
    
    Thanks for taking care of that, it's much clearer now :)
- Palash Bauri 👻Dec 17, 2018
  
  I changed the title mentioning jsonstore
jules mansonDec 17, 2018

One of the coolest things I have seen all year.
kambala yashwanthDec 17, 2018

may i know which ui framework used,
- Palash Bauri 👻Dec 17, 2018
  
  Nothing, just plain css

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