Built in image upload

[Spillebulle]

Often when I want to add something to the list, it is something I see in a store. Then it would be much easier to directly upload to the site, instead of first uploading to something like imgur, then paste the link from there.

Especially not easy for other family members

[Wingysam]

Image uploads would be ideal, but it introduces a lot of complexity. Should this app also be an image hosting service?

[Wingysam]

I've decided that yes, Christmas Community should also be an image hosting service. It increases complexity but the benefit is worth it here.

[Tanush-J]

But what service to use for storing image

[Wingysam]

We can store the files in a directory and serve them when requested. There's no need for s3 or anything since an instance won't have thousands of users.

[servebeer]

upvote

I am currently getting around this issue by mapping “ /usr/src/app/src/static/img” to a local persistent store at “ /mnt/user/appdata/christmas_community/img”. This requires each user to manually upload their image file and then. manually enter the path to the file. It’s a kludge, but it works. I have noticed that the Christmas Community icon in the upper left corner of the screen his now a “?”. I have not figured out how to fix this (if possible).

[Wingysam]

You could avoid that by copying src/static/img from this repo into your /mnt/user/appdata/christmas_community/img, but that is a hack and may break in future versions, like if the image files are changed or moved to another directory.