Tutorial: Learn to code a link shortener using TypeScript and a NoSQL database on AWS

A step-by-step tutorial on building a link shortener API using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS DynamoDB.

Code at your own pace with the help of this written-form tutorial with code snippets and the complete source code: toastybits.dev/building-a-link-shortener-using-typescript/ Become a Patreon: patreon.com/toastybits Today we build a simple link shortener using Node, TypeScript and AWS DynamoDB. The goal is to learn the basics of TypeScript and DynamoDB, and build something that’s easy to grasp and learn. In a later video we will also deploy this service onto AWS Fargate and monetise our app. The goal of this project is to teach you the basics of writing a Typescript backend app (using Node with the Express framework) alongside a NoSQL database (we’ll be using AWS DynamoDB). By the end of this project you will have learned: 1) Start a node project from scratch using Typescript 2) Use strongly-typed variables to reduce the chance of buggy code 3) Structure a project in a way that makes it easy to read, maintain, test and debug 4) Build endpoints for writing and reading data from our database 5) Use a NoSQL database 6) Use an ORM to query and write to the NoSQL database 7) How to build a simple link shortening API Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:14 Overview on what we're building 03:30 Setting up project & installing dependencies 06:17 Project structure 08:55 Starting to code the API entry point 11:19 Linking the dynamoose ORM to our app 14:50 Creating schema and models 18:30 Creating our services 25:34 Creating our controllers 32:01 Creating our routes 33:21 Finishing the app.ts entrypoint 34:02 Testing 35:00 Outro All music provided royalty free by Epidemic Music