How a URL Shortener Works and How to Build One with Next.js

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Tailwind CSS

To keep the focus of this guide on building our chat app, I'll skip the steps in setting up certain dependencies, such as Tailwind CSS for styling, Nano ID for generating strings used to create a short URL version of an original URL and validator for implement URL validation.

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Next.js

Run the following command from your preferred directory to clone a Next.js starter project that already includes these dependencies.

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