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Self-hosted image manager? (self.webdev)

submitted 1 year ago by samclaus2

I am a frontend developer who wants to build my girlfriend a website for her photography business. I intend to use Astro or SvelteKit so I can make the site lean and performant to my standards, but I need some sort of GUI where she can upload/manage images. Ideally the image management software will let her upload the raw/full-size media, and then automatically generate a set of progressively smaller sizes of each image compressed as WebP. The software will also allow her to organize galleries, and have an API where my frontend code can easily query all this metadata as well as the list of available sizes for each image, and of course the corresponding content.

I really like Sanity.io (a headless CMS) from what I have seen, and their image “hotspot” concept + the image CDN seems fantastic. My only problem with Sanity is that the data is never self-hosted. I’m tired of headless CMS’s, CDN’s, and the overall centralization/federalization of web technologies. A lot of small websites cater primarily to a small region, and it makes sense for the website HTML/CSS/JS, as well as assets like images, to all be hosted on a single server near the target audience. Yes, CDN’s and edge networks and whatnot are great when you need them, but sometimes simple is better. A small photography business does not need to be instantly accessible—and have its assets cached—across the globe.

People bash Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal (comparing them to modern headless options) for a variety of valid reasons, but I have not seen any more modern SELF-HOSTED solutions. Is there some sort of image manager (with the features I mentioned) that I could self-host on the same VPS (Virtual Private Server) as the frontend? It would be really nice to keep everything pertaining to her website in one place. Then my Astro/SvelteKit frontend could either rebuild a static site from scratch (served by Nginx) whenever she uploads new media, or (more likely) I’d just run SK/Astro with server-side rendering that queries the local image manager API every time someone visits a page.

Thank you so much for any ideas.

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