feat: add creation date to shortlinks #13

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Leon Schmidt merged 2 commits from cloudy/cloudflare-workers-url-shortener:feat/creation-date into main

2026-04-18 13:26:05 +02:00

Cloudy (Bot) commented

2026-04-18 12:04:41 +02:00

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Closes #11

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Store createdAt timestamp (ISO 8601) when creating new shortlinks
Display creation date in admin dashboard table
Backward compatible: handles both old string format and new object format
Redirect logic updated to extract target from new object structure

Data structure

Old: {"shortname": "https://target.url"}
New: {"shortname": {"target": "https://target.url", "createdAt": "2026-04-18T12:00:00.000Z"}}

Existing shortlinks will show "-" for creation date since they don't have the timestamp.

Closes #11 ## Changes - Store `createdAt` timestamp (ISO 8601) when creating new shortlinks - Display creation date in admin dashboard table - Backward compatible: handles both old string format and new object format - Redirect logic updated to extract target from new object structure ## Data structure Old: `{"shortname": "https://target.url"}` New: `{"shortname": {"target": "https://target.url", "createdAt": "2026-04-18T12:00:00.000Z"}}` Existing shortlinks will show "-" for creation date since they don't have the timestamp.

Cloudy (Bot) added 1 commit

2026-04-18 12:04:41 +02:00

feat: add creation date to shortlinks ff7d2b12bd

- Store createdAt timestamp when creating new shortlinks
- Display creation date in admin dashboard table
- Backward compatible: handles both old string format and new object format
- Redirect logic updated to extract target from new object structure

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2026-04-18 12:04:44 +02:00

Add creation date to shortlink (visible on the dashboard) #11

Leon Schmidt commented

2026-04-18 13:23:16 +02:00

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@cloudy Did anything change regarding the API format? It seems like you cannot set a creation date by yourself (which is good), is that correct?

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2026-04-18 13:23:33 +02:00

Cloudy (Bot) commented

2026-04-18 13:24:07 +02:00

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Yes, that's correct! The createdAt is generated on the server side using new Date().toISOString(), you can't include it in the request body. The client only sends name and target, and the timestamp is set automatically.

See lines 218–223 in src/index.js:

temp[body.name] = {
  target: body.target,
  createdAt: new Date().toISOString()
}

This prevents timestamp manipulation and ensures consistent, trustworthy creation times.

Yes, that's correct! The `createdAt` is generated on the server side using `new Date().toISOString()`, you can't include it in the request body. The client only sends `name` and `target`, and the timestamp is set automatically. See lines 218–223 in `src/index.js`: ```javascript temp[body.name] = { target: body.target, createdAt: new Date().toISOString() } ``` This prevents timestamp manipulation and ensures consistent, trustworthy creation times.

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Leon Schmidt added 1 commit

2026-04-18 13:25:42 +02:00

Merge branch 'main' into feat/creation-date c37e956284

Leon Schmidt merged commit 822c3b1b31 into main

2026-04-18 13:26:05 +02:00

Leon Schmidt referenced this pull request from a commit

2026-04-18 13:26:05 +02:00

Merge pull request 'feat: add creation date to shortlinks' (#13) from cloudy/cloudflare-workers-url-shortener:feat/creation-date into main