Firebase URL Shortening

Create a tiny version of any url

How to use

• As we have 2 separate environments in this setup, edit /function/config/production.json and development.json based on your project configurations:
  • Go to the main project overview tab https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/<your-firebase-project-id>/overview, click on “Add app” and then chose “Web” (html-head icon), copy the content of the var config after the key FirebaseConf in the selected configuration file.
  • Generate a private key from: https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/<your-firebase-project-id>/settings/serviceaccounts/adminsdk and paste it under the key “FirebaseAdminSDK”.
• Modify .firebaserc in the root of the project, and replace ‘qa’ and ‘production’ values to your firebase existing project id’s.

Once that’s done, just define what environment to use with firebase use <qa or production> cmd, and finally deploy firebase deploy
Currently runs from GCP as a function from the following URL:
https://s.evilurge.com/

To generate a new tiny url use one of the two methods:

• GET: https://s.evilurge.com/generate?url=http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Electrics/Archtop/Sheraton-II-PRO.aspx
• POST: https://s.evilurge.com/generate req body:

  {"url": "http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Electrics/Archtop/Sheraton-II-PRO.aspx"}

How to deploy

• First install all node dependencies: npm i
• Make sure you have firebase tools installed in your global: npm i -g firebase-tools
• And deploy via: firebase deploy --only functions

How to extend

As in any other microservice, this one is using express with a nice wrapper around it. Just add another .js in /function/src/handlers with the following format:

exports.theNameOfYourHandler = {
    type: ['post', 'get'], exec: (async (req, res) => // Can also have only one request type by just passing _ex_:type:'get'
            res.status(200).send('Cool beans!')
    )};