DEVLOG_5: Worked for 12+ hours straight and finally implemented a lot of very important features.

The Scanner is now properly working there was a bug I solved which was making the scanner log the indexes of the files but never start a preview or thumbnail generation. Now each time U hit scan button it goes through the entire directory of your storage device and every file is properly indexed in a postgres database. every img file is sent to a thumbnail and preview generator and from every vid file its 1st second is captured and used to generate a thumbnail and preview for it as well.

All these thumbnails and previews are stored in the internal ssd of the vps so that when you are scrolling throught the galary the main ssd is not touched and the user sees a lower quality thumbnail of every image and vid instead of loading the entire thing in full quality.

To actually play vids on the browser, I’m using HLS Video Cache which lets me supply the vid to the user’s browser in chunks rather than the entire file at once, it makes the loading faster and playtime smooth.

Lasty I also added an audit log page which shows the last 20 audits on done on Loom :]