Perugia View

Background

Background

Reviving the "React-ImageView" to experiment with packaging with the following goals:

• File system integration
• Working with menus and "native" bits
• Packaging
• A tool for family to use that doesn't blow up every 5 images

Currently, due to differing options available to the native side of the app, only supporting MacOS builds.

Why another d^mn slideshow viewer?

Pretty silly and not that complicated of a project, right?

Being in a family that loves travel and photography, after family trips we always gathered around a screen to look at what photos we've captured. However, from proprietary photo viewers to third-party freeware solutions, the slideshow viewers would always run into problems; whether it's crashing arbitrarily or being unable to show certain file details while viewing.

Under no fantasy that this non-native solution built in spare time would surpass any native options out there, but 🤷‍♂️ it's something to tinker with.

Project goals

Outside of experimenting with some of the items listed under general background, some of the product goals include:

• Simple to use: just drag a selection in and go
• Configure basic aspects of the viewing experience
• Being able to export a list of favorites; useful for saving photos to extract later

Set-up and build processes

Setup + Build

Local development:

cd src
npm i
npm run dev

Will build with vite and with tauri:

npm run test-build

To actuall build for "production":

npm run tauri build

Stack

Leverages some of these libraries:

• Chakra
• Tauri
• Tauri config

Tauri was integrated after the fact. For more information on the Rust components, see the docs.