pictor

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pictor

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pictor is simple image upload/convert/download server.

The name of pictor comes from Pictor, a constellation.

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Introduction

Local storages and traffic are expensive, especially in cloud environment.

There're many cheap and large cloud/remote storage services, most of them provide cheap and fast HTTP access.

ex. Amazon S3, FTP+HTTP Static Image Hosting Services...

pictor is designed for these environment.

pictor basically works as following:

  • upload is accomplished by pictor. cloud/remote storage can do if possible.
  • convert is accomplished by pictor.
  • download is accomlished by cloud/remote storage. pictor can do if you want.
  • all files are stored in cloud/remote storage. local storage can do if you want.
  • all variant files(generated by pictor) could be deleted at any anytime. pictor will generate it on demand.

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Getting Started

  1. install prerequisites for mac osx:
    $ brew install graphicsmagick
    
    for debian/ubuntu linux:
    $ apt-get install graphicsmagick
    
    or else see http://graphicsmagick.org
  2. download & install pictor install with npm:
    $ npm install pictor
    
    or get source from github:
    $ git clone git@github.com:iolo/pictor.git
    
  3. startup pictor server start as standalone:
    $ ./bin/pictor --host=0.0.0.0 --port=3001
    
    or startup with pm2
    $ npm install pm2 -g
    $ pm2 start -i 4 -n pictor ./bin/pictor -- --host=0.0.0.0 --port=3001
    
  4. test run in browser
    $ open http://localhost:3001
    
  5. test run in console
    TBD...
    

Configurations

configuration files are located in config directory for various environment.

you should specify the environment with PICTOR_ENV or NODE_ENV environment variable.

you could specify the absolute path to the configuration file with PICTOR_CONFIG environment variable also.

for more details, see source code of default configuration.

Generated Documents

Advanced Topics

  • embedding pictor in other expressjs app
  • custom storage
  • custom converter
  • TBW...

Internals

  • to show debug logs

set DEBUG environment variable to * or pictor:* and run pictor.

$ DEBUG='*' ./bin/pictor

see http://github.com/visionmedia/debug

config/ --- configurations for each environment(server-side)
libs/ -- nodejs modules(server-side) --> jshint, doxx task
    converter/ -- converters
    storage/ -- storage providers
    pictor.js -- the main module
  ...
routes/ -- expressjs modules(server-side) --> jshint, apidoc task
tests/
    **/*_test.js -- nodeunit testcases(server-side) --> nodeunit task
    **/*_test.html -- qunit testcases(client-side) --> qunit task
app/ -- source of static web resources(client-side) --> concat, uglify, copy, jade task
    js/ -- javascript source(client-side) --> jshint task
    ...
build/
    app/ --> build output of static web resources(client-side)
      docs/
        api/ --> generated documents of apidoc for routes/ --> apidoc task
        dox/ --> generated documents of doxx for libs/ --> doxx task
      ...
app.js -- launcher without cluster(server-side)
bin/pictor -- launcher with cluster(server-side)
  • to generate api documents from source
grunt apidoc
open build/app/docs/api/index.html
  • to generate source code documents from source
grunt doxx
open build/app/docs/api/index.html

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that's all folks...

may the source be with you...

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npm i pictor

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0.4.1

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