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by hlawson 3827 days ago
I created Photish as most of the static website generators I came across and used were text focused. The tooling, patterns and structure were geared towards sites with lots of text based content.

Photish is focused on photo based websites. Using a collection of albums in a folder, some templates defined in the language of your choice and some (optional) accompanying metadata in a YAML file, Photish will transcode your images into your desired formats (using ImageMagick) and parse and render the templates against your photo collection.

Transcoding large photo collections can take time, Photish does it's best to speed up this process by creating multiple threads to allow ImageMagick transcodes to run in parallel. It also caches all transcodes to avoid regeneration as you develop your site locally.

Try it out, let me know what you think! The project is in it's early days but it is in a working and performant state. Happy to take feature requests and or pull requests.
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tombrossman 3826 days ago
Have you tried Sigal? http://sigal.saimon.org/en/latest/

I use Jekyll for static sites but for photo galleries Sigal is my go-to solution as it is fast and stable and works very well for generating a static photo gallery.

Nice work on the demo, too.

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jamessb 3826 days ago
Expose looks very impressive, and was posted here 74 days ago:

https://github.com/Jack000/Expose

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376468

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hlawson 3825 days ago
Expose is great, I came across that too when it was shared here. The author has created some beautiful themes and the example sites look great.

I was keen to contribute to it (to try add other template engines, caching, etc.) however it is written in bash and the script is over 900 lines and doesn't have a test suite yet. Not being too proficient in bash I was a bit anxious about diving in and contributing.

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Jack000 3825 days ago
author here. I wouldn't call myself proficient in bash either :]

I think I'd like for expose to remain a simple(ish) script that you don't have to think too much about. For something more fully-featured with actual templating, caching, plugins etc bash is not quite the right tool imo.

I'm glad there are more options in the "photo-oriented SSG" space.

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hlawson 3825 days ago
I haven't tried Sigal, thanks for sharing the link. I'll check it out. What do you like about it?

I also use Jekyll, it has been the perfect tool for my blog.

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