A simple example of photo gallery build with Astro

This is a simple example of a photo gallery built with Astro. Form more details feel free to check my blog post at https://jankraus.net/2024/04/05/how-to-build-a-simple-photo-gallery-with-astro/.

🚀 Project Structure

Inside of your Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
├── src/
│   └── content/
│       └── albums/
│           └── album-one/
│               └── cover.jpg
│               └── photo-one.jpg
│               └── ...
│           └── album-one.yml
│           └── ...
│       └── config.ts
│   └── pages/
│       └── index.astro
|       └── gallery.astro
|       └── gallery/
|           └── [id].astro
│   └── components/
│       └── Layout.astro
|   └── utils/
|       └── albums.ts
└── package.json

Astro looks for .astro files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.

In src/content/ is where we store our content collections. We have albums with photos and a configuration file for the content collections.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI

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