Ask HN: Better ways to handle image storage/retrieval for a beginner web dev?

Hey guys,

I'm developing/designing a website for my friend and it'll definitely be a photo-heavy site which will contain multiple photo galleries and other images. I am definitely not an expert in web development, so any and all advice would probably help me greatly.

I'm figuring to go with a Nuxt.js / Vue.js frontend or go with Gastby / React. Then use Firebase to store and retrieve all the images. My biggest concern, is loading and storing images so that is fast, affordable, and also easy-to-use so my non-tech friend can just upload photos simple as that. Not sure if I can obtain all three of those things, but if you have any suggestions or know of any useful resources I could look at, that'd be great! Thank you.

Right now, my plan is to learn more about programmatically storing and retrieving uploaded photos to Firebase (which I can probably create some admin endpoint or something, if there's a better alternative, let me know!). Folders would probably be the identifiers for which photo gallery to put it in, etc. Not sure if I really want to create a dedicated Node.js backend or anything. I'll probably be handling it mostly in the frontend code.

Let me know your guys' thoughts if you have any!