Thanks! Hmm, not sure what you mean, that I shouldn’t install devDependencies when building the release? That’s a good point, I’ll need to look into it

Oh interesting! Thanks for explaining :)

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense! This app relies quite heavily on in-memory caches, so it’s somewhat incompatible with that model :)

That said, I wonder if the startup time would be noticeable. Depends a lot on the configuration, but it shouldn’t take more than a few 100ms (esp. if you use skip_collection_counts).

Thx! Out of interest, what is your use case?

I don’t know a lot about fastcgi, but looking it up it seems like it also keeps a persistent process running to avoid execution overhead, but I don’t know how that process is managed 🤷‍♂️

Either way, you could use a supervisor of sorts that shuts down the process/container after some idle time (at least for containers I know some exist) and that should probably work fine (outside of interrupting scanning operations).

I haven’t tried it myself yet though :)

Thanks for trying it out! Let me know if you run into any issues or have some ideas :)

Hey thanks! The Immich folks are doing an astounding job indeed :)

Let me know if you encounter any issues! ☺️

Hmm, I’m not sure I understand exactly. By default it uses each subfolder as an album / collection that you can pick on the home page. You can also configure custom collections/albums consisting of arbitrary directories. You could also configure e.g. an “all” collection with all the photos combined by listing the root directory(s). Is that what you meant?

Thanks! Do you mean explorer-like folder browsing?

I’d say Immich has quite a few more features, with the primary focus of backing up your media from your mobile devices with a more “managed” approach (it takes care of storing and organizing the files).

Photofield is more minimalistic (both in terms of user interface and as an application) and more useful if you have an existing directory structure that you want to view as a gallery. It also pulls a few neat tricks to make it work smoothly with up to ~600k files.

See also the linked comparison for more details. It’s mostly accurate, though video is a bit better with this release.

It’s quite impressive how much the Immich folks have achieved in a relatively short period of time! I’m glad you found something that works for you :)