PiGallery2

This is a directory-first photo gallery website, optimised for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)

Work in progess.... Estimated first beta in 2017 summer

Live Demo @ heroku: https://pigallery2.herokuapp.com/

Feature list:

• Rendering directories as it is
  • Listing subdirectories recursively
  • Listing photos in a nice grid layout
    • supporting most common image formats
    • showing tag/keywords, locations, GPS coordinates for photos
    • rendering photos on demand (on scroll)
• On the fly thumbnail generation in several sizes
  • prioritizes thumbnail generation (generating thumbnail first for the visible photos)
  • saving generated thumbnails to TEMP folder for reuse
  • supporting several core CPU
  • supporting hardware acceleration (sharp as optional and JS-based Jimp as fallback)
• Custom lightbox for full screen photo viewing
  • keyboard support for navigation - In progress
  • showing low-res thumbnail while full image loads
  • Information panel for showing Exif info - In progress
• Client side caching (directories and search results)
• Rendering photos with GPS coordinates on google map
  • .gpx file support - In progress
• Two modes: SQL database and no-database mode
  • both modes supports
    • user management
    • password protection can be disabled/enabled
  • database mode supports:
    • faster directory listing
    • searching
      • instant search, auto complete
    • sharing - In progress
      • setting link expiration time
• Nice design - In progress
  • responsive design (phone, tablet desktop support)
• Setup page - In progress
• Markdown based blogging support - In progress
  • you can write some note in the blog.md for every directory
• bug free :) - In progress