/tags/url/Recent content in URL onHugoenThu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000/2019/08/how-to-write-a-url-shortener-in-go/Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000/2019/08/how-to-write-a-url-shortener-in-go/<p>Exercise 2 of <a href="https://gophercises.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreffer ">Gophercises</a> was to create a URL shortener. The framework for this code was given and the student needed to fill in the missing pieces. The solution of the main problem is given but no solutions are given for the bonus challenges. This is my solution to the main problem along with the bonus challenges in which a solution was not given.</p> <p>The main goal of this exercise was to get familiar working with different markup languages in Go. It also introduced working with command line arguments and reading data from a database.</p>