exiftool-vendored.js VS Shynet

Know that although ExifTool is written in perl, you can run it in "batch mode" which makes it quite fast--only a couple of ms to parse a file. I've written an open source library to manage the subprocesses for you if you're using node.js (and I also wrote the ruby variant ages ago):

https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js

The frontend is in Vue. Both the FE and BE are in TypeScript.

Parallelism is provided by https://github.com/photostructure/batch-cluster.js/

Metadata reads and writes are via https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js/

My more nerdier blog posts are tagged here: https://photostructure.com/tags/coding/

if you're looking into doing stuff with EXIF, there's a really good library that's also typed: https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js

I needed a good Node wrapper for ExifTool and wrote https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js

When I saw how slow it is to fork child processes in Windows, I then realized I wanted to run ExifTool in "stay-open" mode, which meant I needed to manage 1 or more long-lived child processes that communicate via stdin/stdout, so I wrote https://github.com/photostructure/batch-cluster.js

I also really missed scala's `lazy` operator, so I built that (and several other small, helpful functions/classes) that I documented here: https://photostructure.com/coding/uncertain-lazy-forgetful-a...

+1 on shynet! I use it for my personal website and my blog, and it's been working great.

I got it up and running with Podman, so no need to install and run the Docker daemon. I also fixed SQLite support [1], so no need for an additional DB server.

I analyzed available open-source web analytics tools [2] and AFAIK there is simpler solution for web analytics that doesn't involve a third party.

[1] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet/issues/208

[2] https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/privacy-respecting-self...

I like shynet

I am using shynet for a while now. Really all I need to know :)

https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

There's also Shynet.

Oh that is actually shynet self hosted analytics which is privacy friendly. https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

But I think I'll just remove it for now.

Shynet: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

The goal is to provide, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. And it's completely open source.

Full disclosure: I am the primary maintainer.