url_shortener_api

A simple API following Real Python Tutorial (https://realpython.com/lessons/url-shortener-fastapi-overview/) for building a URL shortener.
This project uses FastAPI and SQLAchemy as framework and ORM and uvicorn as server.

To run this project do:

• Create a Python virtual enviorment

python3 -m venv venv

• Install dependencies with

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a .env file with your variables as follows

ENV_NAME="Development"
BASE_URL="http://127.0.0.1:8000"
DB_URL="sqlite:///./shortener.db"

• Run the server

uvicorn shortener_app.main:app --reload