#100DaysOfCode Day70

Day 70 October 31, 2018

Today's Progress:

• URL Shortener Microservice project at freeCodeCamp
  • Receive the URL posted from the form
  • Validate its format
  • Connect to the DB on mLab

Thoughts:
I used 'url-regex' library to check if the URL is in a valid format, but it can't be used to check if the URL begins with http(s):// (it accepts URL without http(s):// if it begins with www). So I added a regex to check that part.

function isValidUrl(url) {
  // 'url-regex' cannot check if the URL begins with 'http(s)://'
  const httpRegex = /^https?\:\/\//i;
  // Check if the URL begins with 'http(s)://' AND is in a valid URL format checked with 'url-regex'
  return httpRegex.test(url) && urlRegex({exact: true, strict: true}).test(url);
};

Useful link: JavaScript regex checker
RegExr

Link to work:
URL Shortener Microservice: Code