URL Shortener in 43 lines of Haskell.
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Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
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Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#12I'm always amazed to see minimalist used to describe a dozen placeholder directories and files. That said, the code is clean and modern php.
Minimalist in regards to its design, perhaps not the code structure :) In contrast to other projects such as YOURLS, Polr tries to be minimalist by avoiding heavy graphs or unnecessary bloat.
I don't know. If something is defined as "lightweight" (their word, but same point applies to "minimalist"), I should not have to blow my entire brain memory stack keeping the filesystem structure in my head just to start to examine how it's done.
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#13Yes, 4192 files and 32MiB, quite minimal.
Seems 'minimal' and 'modern' are just marketing terms these days.
Honestly though, this is the largest and most complex URL shortner that I can ever recall seeing.
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#14Not to dis Polr, but if performance and minimalism are your thing, there are a lot of nginx + lua + redis URL shorteners on github.
Two random'ish selections...
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#15Wouldn't a minimalist implementation just look up shortened URLs in a map and spit out a redirect to the original URL? Seems like that could be done in a few KiB.
TBH, You can pretty much do a single PHP file, with no dependencies, and without mod_rewrite. Just site.com/?fDS- for example, and it redirects. Storage can be MySQL or some other DB or even a flat file with locking.
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#16Good on you for making it, but I have to side with the comments here that it's not only not lightweight, I personally also can't see what's so modern about it - I'm not hating on PHP but even as a language that's an old beast.
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#17Why is the entire vendor directory in github? I'm fairly certain some of those packages cannot be redistributed like that.
Agree. What is the point of using composer or any dependency manager if you check-in the vendor folder?
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#18Nice that's it's in php/MySQL so it works anywhere.
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#19Yes, 4192 files and 32MiB, quite minimal.
Maybe it's some kind of dadaist minimalism?
Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
#20Why is the entire vendor directory in github? I'm fairly certain some of those packages cannot be redistributed like that.
Agree. What is the point of using composer or any dependency manager if you check-in the vendor folder?
Because your project is useless when a dependency is removed in the future.
It happened to me one time and now I'm really considering to include the vendor folder in my own repository.
Of course a dependency manager is still very useful to setup a new project.