🚀 URL Shortener - Making Long URLs Short and Sweet! 🍭

Welcome to our URL shortener! This isn't just any URL shortener, it's a super-duper, high-flying, time-saving, and absolutely thrilling URL shortener. We take your long, cumbersome URLs and transform them into short, sweet, and shareable links. And guess what? We have a separate service that whisks users away to the original URL when the shortened URL is accessed. Magic! 🎩🐇

🛠️ Built With Love and...

• Next.js: The React framework that needs no introduction.
• MongoDB: Our trusty database sidekick.
• Tailwind CSS: For when we want to look our best.
• NextAuth.js: Keeping your secrets safe with us.
• nanoid: The tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator.

🎁 Features (or should we say, superpowers?)

• User Authentication: Secret identities are safe with us.
• URL Shortening: We take long URLs and make them short. Simple!
• Custom URLs: Want to name your URL? Go ahead, we won't stop you.
• Expiration: Because even URLs need to retire.

🚀 Ready for Liftoff?

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install the dependencies with npm install.
3. Start the development server with npm run dev.

Then, open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the magic happen.

🌍 Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file:

• MONGODB_URI: Your MongoDB connection string.
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: Your Google OAuth client ID.
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET: Your Google OAuth client secret.
• GITHUB_CLIENT_ID: Your GitHub OAuth client ID.
• GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET: Your GitHub OAuth client secret.
• NEXTAUTH_SECRET: A secret used to encrypt session data.
• NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL: The public URL of your application.

You can find these details in the .env.sample file in the root of the project.

🎉 Thanks for stopping by!

We hope you enjoy using our URL shortener as much as we enjoyed building it. Happy shortening!