DALL E 2.0 - AI Image Generator

A Full-Stack web application that generates images with the help of AI using OPEN AI.

Website can be viewed on this Link: Live

Overview

This platform allows it's users to generate Images using AI by just entering the prompt(text-description) about the image to generate.

Purpose

This app is built for the purpose of honing my skills in full stack development.

Demonstration

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Tools And Technologies Used

• HTML (Create the structure and content of the web pages).
• CSS (Styling of the web pages).
• REACT JS (Interactivity, as well as making requests to the API from the client-side).
• NODE (Run JavaScript code on the server-side).
• EXPRESS (Node framework, meant to simplify the process of building complex server-side applications).
• MONGODB (Database for data persistence).
• MONGOOSE (Interacting with mongodb).
• CLOUDINARY (To Upload Images over the Cloud).

Setting Up Your Local Environment

If you wish to play around with the code base in your local environment, do the following

* Clone this repo to your local machine.
* Using the terminal, navigate to the cloned repo.
* Install all the neccessary dependencies, as stipulated in the package.json file.
* If you don't already have one, set up accounts with: OPEN AI, MONGODB, CLOUDINARY.
* In your .env file, set environment variables for the following:
    * MONGODB_URL=your mongodb database url

    * OPENAI_API_KEY=your open ai key

    * CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your cloudinary cloud name
    * CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your cloudinary key
    * CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your cloudinary secret key

* Start the server.
* Your app should be running just fine.