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AlexGallery is an application of images gallery and image processing which can browse local images and photos. actually AlexGallery is a web application, because it is built by pure html. but it is wrap by nw, so it became a desktop application!

• Local folder browser, list folders in tree view
• When choose a folder, thumbnails of images under the folder show, and with two size mode small and large.
• Batch images with batch manipulates including resize, lighten, and with three resize modes
• Image gallery slider mode
• Image processing, you can resize, crop, rotate, set effects (lighten, darken, blur, sharpen ...)

run source code with nw

• suppose you have install nw and bower, if not then run npm install nw bower -g
• clone Repo git clone https://github.com/hcnode/AlexGallery and cd AlexGallery
• install node.js dependencies npm install
• install browser dependencies bower install
• during npm install, library lwip install with node-gyp to build native modules, it work fine in node.js without nw, but with nw, we need to build with nw-gyp manually
  • install nw-gyp npm install nw-gyp -g
  • go to the lwip library cd node_module/lwip
  • generate build files nw-gyp configure
  • build it nw-gyp build
• back to root of app and run nw to launch the application

download app package(Mac only)

• download the package
• unzip the zip file
• launch the app

npm install nwbuild -g

nwbuild -p osx64 -v v0.12.3 -f /path/to/app

• the app only run in Mac so far, and work fine with my Mac, so I am not sure if it work ok in windows as well
• the app will create folder $HOME/AlexGallery to store thumbnail of the images you explore, and nothing else will do with you pc
• when first time enter an images folder, there will generate thumbnail of the images by size max 200px, and save them to the $HOME/AlexGallery/thumb which mention above, so it will need some time to show the thumbnails at the first time you enter the folder

• lwip Light Weight Image Processor for NodeJS
• angular-bootstrap-nav-tree An AngularJS directive that creates a Tree based on a Bootstrap "nav" list.
• ngGallery AngularJS Image Gallery Slideshow
• cropper A simple jQuery image cropping plugin.
• seiyria-bootstrap-slider A complete rewrite of the original bootstrap-slider by Stefan Petre.
• font-awesome The iconic font and CSS toolkit

As you know, images tools in Mac sucks, so I make this app and name it by my newborn boy's name.