MicroLink 🔗

A simple URL shortening service.

Running the service locally

Pre-requisites

1. Docker daemon running locally (perhaps through Docker Desktop)
2. Port 8080 free

Running the service

1. Clone repo
2. CD into root directory
3. Create a .env file with the required environment variables outlined in Spring application properties file
4. Create an application-local.properties file. Copy and paste contents from prod file.
5. Ensure Spring profile is set to local in compose file
6. Build and run the server with docker-compose up --build

Winding the service down

After terminating the docker image, be sure to clean up all resources created by docker by running docker-compose down.