Photonia

A photo hosting service tailored to my needs.

Technologies

• The backend is Ruby on Rails with Sidekiq as the job processor
• Frontend is VueJS 3 - Development, testing and bundling is done by ViteJS
• Uses GraphQL for communicating between the front and backend, except the photo upload which is a REST call (for now)

Features

• The photos are stored on Amazon S3
• Amazon Rekognition is run on each photo - this creates labels and tags
• Thumbnails are based on what Rekognition identifies in the photos
• Imports photos and metadata exported from Flickr

Setup

sudo apt install libpq-dev libexif-dev

Development

In separate terminals:

bin/rails s
bin/vite dev
bundle exec sidekiq

Or use overmind: overmind s -N -f Procfile.dev

Starting Docker containers for system specs

docker run -d \
    --name selenium-hub \
    -p 4442-4444:4442-4444 \
    --net grid \
    selenium/hub:latest

docker run -d \
    --net grid \
    --shm-size="2g" \
    -e SE_EVENT_BUS_HOST=selenium-hub \
    -e SE_EVENT_BUS_PUBLISH_PORT=4442 \
    -e SE_EVENT_BUS_SUBSCRIBE_PORT=4443 \
    selenium/node-chrome:latest

Selenium Grid becomes available at http://localhost:4444/ui

Versioning & Deployment

1. Update the changelog
2. Draft a new release on the releases page
   • Create a tag with the prefix release- and the version, eg: 0.1.3 (resulting tag: release-0.1.3)
   • Prefix the release title with the release version, eg: 0.1.3 - An awesome release
3. Publish the release
4. Go to Jenkins and build the tag