This photo gallery originally stemmed from my personal desire to have and host my own memories for myself and to share with friends and family. Along the way it became a learning tool as well.

Features

Upload and view images
Save files to Backblaze B2 storage.

Development Philosophy

This application is designed to be as browser-only as possible. I have an idealistic attraction to the unhosted movement and have dreams of this gallery becoming a popular photo gallery for anyone who wishes to escape the social media silos. However, interacting with some 3rd-party storage services requires a server-side component for non-CORS-enabled endpoints.

Technology

This would not be possible without the giants who have laid the foundation:

There are many more dependencies. You can find them in the package.json file.

Development

You can use Cloud9 or your favorite editor.

Webpack Development Server is available via npm run dev but it serves as HTTPS and requires a localhost certificate exception in order to operate properly.

Plan

In the future, I plan to add:

convert server to use cors-anywhere
sharable links
local file storage
CSRF for interacting with server component
albums/tags
client-side encryption
video support
Sandstorm support
CORS-based storage: - s3 - remotestorage - Google Cloud? - Dropbox?