Design

The photo gallery will be a self-hostable application that allows its users to store photos and access them from any web browser. It is primarily targeted towards individuals, families and smaller associations that want to be able to (collaborativily) organise their photo albums centrally.

The application is mainly inspired by my own wants to organise the many thousands of photographs I have taken over the past two decades, and to share them with the people that were with me on the occasions I took them. Likewise, I would like them to be able to participate by sharing their pictures with me, to have a single place where everything is stored.

Regardless of these wishes, the photo gallery is above all a means to an end: an opportunity to dive into JavaScript frameworks and the world that surrounds them. Learning about these technologies and how to use them are the primary goals of this project.

Before coming to a final design, I will perform a brief analysis of alternative solutions in the field, to provide some perspective. Together with my own views on the application, this will lead to the final requirements ands wishes for the application, which I aim to realise during the development phase of the project.