README.md

Gallery Maker for Node

Node based static html gallery maker.

Usage

Usage: gallerymaker <command> <source dir> [<dest dir>]

  <dest dir> defaults to sanitized <source dir> + ".web" if not provided.

Commands:
  prepare       Prepares gallery file structure based on the <source dir>
                with sanitized names and resized images (see config.json for
                conversion settings) in <dest dir>;
                creates contents.json with original to sanitized names map
                as a source for image captions.
  list          Prepares gallery contents list html (list.html).
  gallery       Prepares gallery contents html (gallery.html).
  all           Runs all the commands (properly chanined - prepare first).

TODO

• image processing test
  • read images from a dir
  • resize the images
  • save them with sanitized names
• create html frontend for file list
  • list the images (text based)
  • provide <img/> tag literals for copy-pasting
• create the gallery
  • list the images (thumbnail based)
  • generate & use actual thumbnails
  • group entries of the same level beginning with four numbers (a year) together & sort them desc
  • list files before directories (on the same level)
  • list non-image files before images
  • use some lightbox on the prepared directory
• further development
  • style the stuff a bit
  • integration with other projects (iframe? ajax? web component? Polymer?)
  • config.json support (for specifying conversion settings)

Attributions

Image processing done by sharp (github).
Gallery frontend uses jsOnlyLightbox (github).