Version 6.0.0 Beta - New Front-end

[ildyria]

Livewire is gone. VueJS is the new base.

To be brutally honest, there is pretty mych nothing new between version 5.5.1 and version 6 in term of functionalities.
That being said, you should upgrade as soon as possible. Why? Because the new front-end is at least 3 times faster than the previous version!

You can read more about the rationale behind this new version here:

• https://lycheeorg.github.io/2024-06-29-future-of-lychee/
• https://lycheeorg.github.io/2024-06-25-performance-problems/

Furthermore, we had to drop the automated API documentation via scramble (read more here) , there will be a new one coming, but it is not of urgent matter. And while we are on that subject, Lychee is now supporting a complete new version 2 of API, and the version 1 is disabled by default.

On the good to know side, there are a two new .env variable that could be useful:

• VUEJS_ENABLED, pretty much disables the front-end version 6, and catapult you back to version 4.
• LEGACY_API_ENABLED allows you to re-enable the API version 1.

⚠️ By setting VUEJS_ENABLED=false and LEGACY_API_ENABLED=false you will end up with a broken Lychee. Please do not do that, keep at least one of the two set to true.

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This discussion was created from the release Version 6.0.0 Beta - New Front-end (again).

[blubbsy]

thanks ildyria for your transparency and clear communication :)

[oblomow]

Upgraded. Works like a charm! And my ~1000+ album is now more responsive.

[haivala]

There is no Photo::getRandom in the new api? Any plans for it?

[ildyria]

behaviour is the same as Photo::getRandom.

[haivala]

I'm now fetching thumb2x url and taken_at or created_at every 8s. The Photo::getRamdom has that info. Do I now have to do event more requests to get one pic? Now using 2. Session:init to get cookie and then Photo::getRandom to get that info. Is there recommended way to do this? Maybe this is not right place to ask this..

[ildyria]

You can still enable the Legacy API :)

And indeed those info are missing, but I think it can be an easy add back.

[haivala]

True.

Well anyways, this is my use case.

[ildyria]

I'll see what I can do :)