Portfolzio

My photography portfolio website. Written in Scala with ZIO. See it in action: raitis.krikis.id.lv

How it works

For each photo you want to display, you create a directory. The directory can be nested within other directories however deep you like. The directory path (using / as the separator character) is that image's ID. (Image IDs are used for alt text in the html.) Inside that directory you should have:

• One or more image files, with the name matching the regex (?i).*\.(jpg|jpeg)$
• Zero or more raw image files, with the name matching the regex (?i).*\.(arw|raw)$
• One UTF-8 encoded text file named info.json - a json data structure with image metadata.

Inside any directory you can create text files ending with .album which behave as albums. The name of the file (before .album) is the album's ID, and in that text file you can reference images or other albums by their ID (or relative ID) as a newline separated list. You can use the * character to match all images or albums in a directory. You can also match tags with tag:example.

The server observes the directory for changes and refreshes periodically to reflect those changes. Lower-sized preview images are generated for the images using imagemagick.

Dependencies

• Use OpenJDK 11
• inotifywatch, available from the inotify-tools package, for watching file system changes. If you have a photo library with more than 8192 photos, please increase the number of inotify watches the system allows to be made by writing to /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches.
• imagemagick, used for generating preview images
• sha1sum, used for checking if preview images need to be regenerated

Running in development mode

1. Launch sbt shell
2. ~ reStart

Running in production

1. Launch sbt shell
2. assembly
3. Copy the generated fat-jar file to your server
4. run it with Java: java -jar portfolzio.jar

There is a portfolzio.service systemd service file available for copy-pasting into /etc/systemd/system to start the app that way. Use a dedicated webserver like Caddy for HTTPS support.

info.json example

All fields are optional, and can be omitted.

{
  "description": "",
  "tags": [
    "",
    ""
  ],
  "primaryImageFile": "",
  "time": "2024-01-27T18:20:54",
  "cameraModel": "Sony a7 IV",
  "aperture": "F2.8",
  "focalLength": "300mm",
  "shutterSpeed": "1/60s",
  "iso": "ISO 100"
}