New Site Photos, powered by Flickr, created by v0
As I've previously written about, I consider that curation is an act of love, and one outcome for my family is that there is an extensive collection of curated family memories in Storyus, Google Photos and also Flickr.
When it came time to implement a new Photos section for this site, it hence made sense to leverage one of these existing services for media management.
You can see a link to it in the top nav or you can click thislink to my Photos section.
v0
While leveraging Flickr is nothing new for me - what is different this time, is the way I created the code for the implementation - in so much that I used v0.
v0 is one of the most popular and effective of the new AI developer tools - as it is created by the team at Vercel, it's the most frontend focused and up-to-date and (as they/we are also the creators of Next.js, by far the most popular production framework for react )
One miscomprehension that there seems to be around v0, is that it only works with Tailwind/Shadcn, but in this case, just adding the simple prompt:
'I want to form this into a component I could drop into a website which using css modules not tailwind, what do you suggest'
led to this v0 response:
"I'll convert the current photography website into a component that uses CSS Modules instead of Tailwind CSS. This will make it easier to drop into other websites that don't use Tailwind. Let's restructure the code and create the necessary files."
and the resulting migrated code - which is what you see live on my site today.