Elbum is a web photo album generator. Example album at https://jerith666.github.io/elbum-demo/.

basic operation:

generate album data from a directory of pictures

• build and run src/generator/gen-album.hs
  • give it two arguments:
    • a source directory of pictures, each dir representing an album
      • each album (except the root) must have a thumbnail symlink
        • thumbnails may point into subdirs
      • albums can be nested
    • a target directory
  • it populates the target directory with:
    • a directory of resized pictures
    • an album.json file describing the structure and contents of the albums

generate client code to display the album

• run src/client/album-types-gen.hs:
  • it produces Album.elm, client-side types and JSON en/decoders corresponding to AlbumTypes.hs
• in src/client, run elm-make Main.elm --output elbum.js:
  • the index.html in src/client loads the compiled elbum.js and renders an album described by album.json
• use src/client/default.nix to do this.

use the Nix project's nix-shell with the provided shell.nix to automatically create a development environment with all the necessary tools available.

general approach inspired by http://bins.sautret.org/