freeCodeCamp Challenge Guide: shorten url

[byvak]

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

My project is working fine when I run it to replit. I think it’s due to a pre middleware of mongoose that I use. it’s not executed but should.

Your project link(s)

solution: https://replit.com/@byvak/boilerplate-project-urlshortener

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15

Challenge: URL Shortener Microservice

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[lasjorg]

1. You are not handling the URL validation correctly. Instead of doing what you are now, you can just use the URL constructor it has properties like hostname.

new URL(longUrl).hostname;

2. The response for invalid URLs is not the one that is asked for. It must match exactly.

If you pass an invalid URL that doesn’t follow the valid http://www.example.com format, the JSON response will contain { error: 'invalid url' }

3. The redirect isn’t working. I didn’t really look at the code but the Request is pretty funky.

Request URL: https://boilerplate-project-urlshortener.lasjorg.repl.co/api/shorturl/Une%20erreur%20lors%20du%20raccourcicement%20de%20l'URL%20MongooseError:%20document%20must%20have%20an%20_id%20before%20saving

It looks related to the warning about the _id in the URL model.

(node:1265) [MONGOOSE] Warning: mongoose: Cannot specify a custom index on `_id` for model name "Url", MongoDB does not allow overwriting the default `_id` index. See https://bit.ly/mongodb-id-index