Main features

• Retain the simplicity of old gallely@#always project
  • Turn filesystem directories of images into nice thumbnailed galleries WITH NO LIGHTBOX STYLE FUNCTIONALITY, just simple direct images.
  • Support for custom themes, nested directories, and captioned images.
• Front-end interface for uploading files & directories
  • No longer just an image uploader, combine functionality from /up/, allowing configuration of what filetypes to accept.
  • Drag & Drop to upload, or even copy+paste to upload (imgur style)
  • Uploads include progress bar

Maybe features

• upload by remote url
• upload zips
• rename files when uploading
• file type validation

Dev Resources / notes dump

use this space to jot down useful stuff for now

• https://github.com/pqina/filepond

  • ↑ this project is probably the closest to what we want, it has a standalone js file so we dont have to use npm, it does directories and has a nice progress bar. probably not what we want overall but a nice starting point.

• Base

  • Am thinking Starlette: https://www.starlette.io/
  • With authlib user auth: https://docs.authlib.org/en/latest/client/starlette.html using googly auth
    • Means users will need a googly login, I think that's fine. Need to check what they mean with "will store the temporary credential as a secure cookie which will expose your request token to the client", may not apply here.
  • Let's also be super hipster nerds and use https://python-gino.org/ for db