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Re: Show HN: Photish, a simple multithreaded static photo portfolio generator

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Post by hlawson » Sun, Dec 27, 2015, 12:20 AM UTC

jamessb wrote: post #10

tombrossman wrote: post #9

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Have you tried Sigal? http://sigal.saimon.org/en/latest/ I use Jekyll for static sites but for photo galleries Sigal is my go-to solution as it is fast and stable and works very well for generating a static photo gallery. Nice work on the demo, too.

Expose looks very impressive, and was posted here 74 days ago: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376468

Expose is great, I came across that too when it was shared here. The author has created some beautiful themes and the example sites look great.

I was keen to contribute to it (to try add other template engines, caching, etc.) however it is written in bash and the script is over 900 lines and doesn't have a test suite yet. Not being too proficient in bash I was a bit anxious about diving in and contributing.

Re: Show HN: Photish, a simple multithreaded static photo portfolio generator

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Post by hlawson » Sun, Dec 27, 2015, 12:22 AM UTC

tombrossman wrote: post #9

hlawson wrote: post #2

I created Photish as most of the static website generators I came across and used were text focused. The tooling, patterns and structure were geared towards sites with lots of text based content. Photish is focused on photo based websites. Using a collection of albums in a folder, some templates defined in the language of your choice and some (optional) accompanying metadata in a YAML file, Photish will transcode you…

Have you tried Sigal? http://sigal.saimon.org/en/latest/ I use Jekyll for static sites but for photo galleries Sigal is my go-to solution as it is fast and stable and works very well for generating a static photo gallery. Nice work on the demo, too.

I haven't tried Sigal, thanks for sharing the link. I'll check it out. What do you like about it?

I also use Jekyll, it has been the perfect tool for my blog.

Re: Show HN: Photish, a simple multithreaded static photo portfolio generator

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Post by Jack000 » Sun, Dec 27, 2015, 4:22 AM UTC

hlawson wrote: post #11

jamessb wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Expose looks very impressive, and was posted here 74 days ago: https://github.com/Jack000/Expose https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376468

Expose is great, I came across that too when it was shared here. The author has created some beautiful themes and the example sites look great. I was keen to contribute to it (to try add other template engines, caching, etc.) however it is written in bash and the script is over 900 lines and doesn't have a test suite yet. Not being too proficient in bash I was a bit anxious about diving in and contributing.

author here. I wouldn't call myself proficient in bash either :]

I think I'd like for expose to remain a simple(ish) script that you don't have to think too much about. For something more fully-featured with actual templating, caching, plugins etc bash is not quite the right tool imo.

I'm glad there are more options in the "photo-oriented SSG" space.