Its like Hugo but for large photo galleries

GoGallery is a static site generator designed just for large photo sets. The problem is that just my modest approximate 1000 image gallery is around 5GB in size. This means traditional static stie generators where you host everything is github is not going to work. Also I do not want to keep reorgaising my photos or rely on some database. I have my photo in folders (albums) and I needed a tool to generate a webpage for those images.

Incomes GoGallery just point it at your photos and it will generate a static site for with a customizable theme. The template language is Handlebars no fancy Javascript single page webapps here. What is included. is image optomization into multiple sizes for the web and the site also generates a PWA so it can act like a desktop/mobile app. Chrome Lighthouse scores the site at 93/100 for performance and 95/100 for accessibility

The Software also has a dashboard that you can use to manage the photos e.g change captions add albums to be hidden etc. You can also preview the site using the serve command

gogallery [flags]

      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.gogallery.yaml)
  -h, --help            help for gogallery

• gogallery build - build static site
• gogallery deploy - deploy static site
• gogallery serve - serve static site
• gogallery template - extract template

The inspiration for this gallery is to provide a some of the functionaities of my old gallery cms Koken which has had no updates in over a year+ and had gone silent. NOTE that this is not a replacement for Koken just the very limited features I was using.

The application uses react frontend and a seperate react dashboard that supports upload and managing photos in collections.

Demo at https://gallery.exceptionerror.io

Dashboard Home	Settings	Tasks

Album View	Sidebar

Website Home	Photo Page	Collection Page

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

apache-2.0

You can build GoGallery from source using Go. Make sure you have Go 1.20 or newer installed.

You can use the provided Makefile for building:

make build         # Build the GoGallery CLI/web binary
make build-themes  # Build all theme assets (npm install/build/clean in each theme)
make clean         # Remove built binaries

This will produce the gogallery binary in your current directory.

Or, to build manually:

go build -o gogallery main.go

You can use the Makefile to build the Fyne desktop app and install dependencies:

make fyne-cli           # Install the Fyne CLI tool
make fyne-deps-ubuntu   # Install Fyne dependencies (Ubuntu)
make fyne-deps-fedora   # Install Fyne dependencies (Fedora/RedHat)
make fyne-build         # Build the Fyne desktop app for your platform

• The fyne-build target will auto-detect your OS and build the appropriate package.
• You can also run make all to install Fyne CLI and build the desktop app in one step.

For more details, see the Fyne documentation and the GoGallery wiki.

See the Theme Development Guide for instructions on building and customizing GoGallery templates and themes.