URL Shortening API || Next.js + Typescript

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

Hey everyone! It's been a while 😊

Well, I'm most proud of the PWA support that I could implement within this next.js project. One more step towards progressive web apps!

Currently, I'm using client-side API calls but for future projects, I would like to prioritize using the API dedicated routes and creating custom route handlers to enhance performance and SEO potentially ⬆️

I also implemented a toast when the links are shortened using Sonner!

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

The one challenge that made it difficult for me to implement the API was the API itself. I was running into CORS policy issues and the cleanuri API documentation doesn't really specify how to configure the requests... so I tested the API using postman and it did work but the result link returned by the API is very much prone to phishing attacks. As soon as I clicked that link...my antivirus started screaming at me and I decided to see the website anyway.. yup I shouldn't have... bad decision 💀

In the end, I just opted for a different API which is actually pretty safe and public so for anyone who wants to use that instead here's the repo for it: 1pt-co

The format returned by this API is very much aligned with this specific project so it helped a lot. One less state to maintain haha

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

I'm still learning about accessibility and I've tried to implement it for this project but I'm still not sure if I've implemented it fully so any help with that is appreciated.

While lighthouse does help with the main accessibility issues it doesn't help with core ones apparently so I'd also like to know which tools you guys use to analyze the page for major accessibility issues.

It was a good project overall and I had fun! Any Feedback or suggestions are appreciated.

P.S I used Framer motion to animate the URLs so give it a go! 🪄