Gallery backend

This is a backend part of Gallery project. Frontend part lives here. The app is able to serve images in a specified directory to clients via HTTP as gallery with albums and images. All images are converted to .webp format before sending. Albums data is stored in a mongodb database. The albums can be searched through their names and tags.

Preinst

Software required:

• MongoDB 7.0.5
• npm 10.2.4
• NodeJS 20.11.0

Installation

1. Run npm install in the root project directory.
2. Copy .env.template file contents to a new .env file. In the new file you will most likely want to setup the following:

• GALLERY_SRC_LOCATION is your directory with albums which will be used as source.
• GALLERY_CASH_LOCATION is the location where cash images will be stored once they have been compressed.

Execute

In the project directory run npm start. To add your images to database from the source directory specified in .env file post the following request (using Insomnia, Postman or other test software):

POST http://localhost:3000/gallery/init