URL Shortener in Rust with the Nickel Web Framework

Sep 7, 2023

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A simple URL Shortener written in the Rust programming language, using the Nickel.rs web framework. Rust web development. 0:00 Create Hello World app 0:57 Resolve shortened URLs with a HashMap 2:20 Index template with form 3:10 POST endpoint to shorten URLs 4:45 Generate random IDs for the URLs 5:39 CSS and static files Music Attribution: "Harpsichord Concerto no. 2 in E, BWV 1053" by Matthew Ganong available at https://musopen.org/music/2385/johann-sebastian-bach/harpsichord-concerto-no-2-in-e-bwv-1053/ under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. Full terms at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.