🖼️ Pic Placeholder
Pic placeholder is a stylish image placeholder with 6 categories (animals, cats, dogs, houses, landscapes & people) which collectively sums up to 500+ images.
Overview video
Here's a short video that explains the project and how it uses redis
How it works
Pic placeholder is a microservice that provides endpoints to get placeholder images. These endpoints are:
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/api/categories/[type]- returns JSON of all images with the supported types filtered from redis
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/api/images/[id]- redirects to specific image stored on aws S3
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/api/images- returns JSON of all images from redis
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/api/random/[category]- redirects to a random image matching the category
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/api/random- redirects to a random image
How the data is stored:
There are two parts to this; the Redis JSON storage and the aws s3 storage.
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The Redis JSON contains the placeholders which are of this schema:
…{ file: { type: "number" } width: { type: "number" }, height: { type: