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Here's how we'd add Users and handle edit permissions for links. See how it compares to your implementation and consider the pros/cons of each approach.

Anyone can add, edit, and delete any Link in our URL Shortener database. Your challenge is to add users, associate links with them and only allow editing of your own links.

We're ready to deploy our URL Shortener to production and we're going to do that using Hatchbox.io

Copy to clipboard is a required feature for a URL shortener. We'll implement this with two JavaScript libraries (clipboardjs and tippy.js) and a Stimulus controller.

We can retrieve the title, description, and OpenGraph metadata for URLs. Since HTTP requests can be slow, we'll implement this metadata lookup in a background job and broadcast to the frontend with Turbo.

It's time we start cleaning up the design and UI for a better experience with our URL shortener.

Analytics for links is a useful feature so lets record Views for links and show them in a graph

Next, we can build redirecting Short URLs to the URL on the Link

Now that we have Base62 encoding and decoding, we can tell Rails to use this for generating URL params and find

Decoding our Base62 encoded short codes is the next challenge