Pixl

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪksəl/, /ˈpɪksɛl/

Presents images with some transition effects (fx) so that I can improve my web development skills and learn new things.

Purpose

The purpose is to improve my web development skills. I want to ...

• ... have fun
• ... learn new technologies, reflect and improve myself
• ... develop something i can be proud of

Learning through experience. Learning by doing.

Masterplan

Build a web slideshow application from scratch for my daughter using:

• HTML
• // TODO: SCSS/SASS as a pre-processor for the CSS wich animate the images
• JQuery to preload and show the slides
• Gulp as a task runner (gulpfile.js)
• JSHint to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code
• CSSLint to detect errors and potential problems in CSS code
• NPM for Node.js package management

Note: I'm using the beautiful free pictures found on Unsplash.

Workflow

I use Gulp for the front-end development workflow, making it faster and more efficient. I automate different tasks such as:

• Injecting files that have to be referenced
• Linting code (showing warnings and errors in console window)
• Watching for changes in CSS, HTML and JS files
• Concatenating and minifying code
• Cropping and optimizing images

Architecture

First of all the project root is NOT the webroot. The webroot is ./build/.

Pixl consist of a PHP script images.php that will scan the folder ./images/ for JPG files and provide that sequence of images in JSON format to a jQuery script script.js to display it in a slideshow. After each run, the list of images will be reloaded and shuffled. The photographer is determined on the basis of the image name.

Installation

• Download or clone the Pixl github repository
• Run the npm install command
• Upload the files from ./build/ folder to your Webserver

Add images

• Run the gulp watch:images command
• Place some images into the folder ./source/uploads/
• Upload the files from ./build/images folder to your Webserver webroot

Requirements

• NPM is installed on your computer when you install Node.js
• Make sure ImageMagick is installed on your system

Author

Fabian Dennler - Github

License

See the LICENSE file for details.

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG file for details.