short-urls

used for redirecting cvq.me short links to full target urls

how to add a URL

If you are a Civic Quarterly editor or contributor, you might want to add a URL to point to an article or some other source. Edit the urls.json file. Add a property with the name of the URL slug you want, with a value of the target URL. For example, if you want http://cvq.me/ocelots to point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot, you would add a line like

,  "/ocelots": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot"

Note that style-wise, this file uses comma-first notation. This is to make it easier to add new lines without having to modify existing lines.

server stuff

It's a node server, so install it with npm install and start it with npm start.

Make sure to set the following environment variables:

• PORT: the port number to listen on
• PRIVACY_SEED: we hash IP addresses for user privacy, so set this to some secure string