Lil Hash
A simple shareable URL shortener hosted on cloudflare workers
Overview
Lil' Hash is a simple URL shortener tool that creates easily memorable and pronounceable shortened URLs. It was inspired by the now defunct hamhash.com. This tool ensures that the links expire after 24 hours, allowing for a consistently available one-word shortening option. Lil' Hash is globally deployed using serverless hosting through Cloudflare Workers, providing server-side rendering. The frontend framework used is Svelte Kit, with styling done using Tailwindcss. The design features the Averia Serif font and Tabler Icons.
Features
- Easily memorable and pronounceable shortened URLs
- Expiring links after 24 hours
- Consistently available one-word shortening option
- Globally deployed with serverless hosting
- Server-side rendering
- Frontend framework: Svelte Kit
- Styling: Tailwindcss
- Averia Serif font
- Tabler Icons
Summary
Lil' Hash is a simple URL shortener tool that provides easily memorable and pronounceable shortened URLs. It ensures that the links expire after 24 hours and offers a consistently available one-word shortening option. The tool is globally deployed using serverless hosting through Cloudflare Workers, with server-side rendering provided. The frontend is built using Svelte Kit and styled with Tailwindcss, incorporating the Averia Serif font and Tabler Icons.
- Svelte
Svelte is a modern front-end framework that compiles your code at build time, resulting in smaller and faster applications. It uses a reactive approach to update the DOM, allowing for high performance and a smoother user experience.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.