photos.js

A node.js powered Photo Gallery

Requirements

• A Heroku account
• An Amazon AWS account
• Your Amazon AWS Access Key and Secret Key
• An Amazon S3 bucket, for storing the images
• An Amazon SQS queue, for the thumbnail daemon
• A deployed copy of thumbd (the thumbnail daemon)

Configuration

Add the MongoDB addon:

heroku addons:add mongohq:sandbox

Configure Heroku:

heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=secret \
                  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=secret \
                  AWS_REGION=us-east-1 \
                  AWS_SQS_QUEUE=https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/12345/abcdef
                  MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE=10485760 \
                  NODE_ENV="production" \
                  PLACEHOLDER_IMAGE_URL=https://example.com/placeholder.png \
                  S3_BUCKET_NAME=my-gif-bucket \
                  SESSION_SECRET="super-random-secret"