README.md

Children's Book Generator

Running the Project Locally

• Create a .env file with the correct variables (see below)
• Install all packages with npm install
• Run the project with npm run dev

.env variables

• MONGO_USERNAME
• MONGO_PASSWORD
• DATABASE_NAME ("dev" in development or "main" in production)
• MIDJOURNEY_API_KEY From Imagine Pro
• API_URL (probably http://localhost:3000 or the IP of the EC2 instance)
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_REGION
• S3_BUCKET_NAME "cbgstorage" for development or "cbgstorage-prod" for production
• IMAGE_DIR Wherever you want locally downloaded images to be stored
• DOCUMENT_DIR Wherever you want locally downloaded images to be stored

Account Info

• Mongo DB: login with email
• AWS (EC2 instance and S3 bucket for image storage)

Project Overview

The web app allows the user to generate all of the text and image content required for a book. Specifically:

1. Generate a title
2. Generate an outline, a list of one title for each of the 12 chapters
3. Generate an image for the hardcover front cover
4. Generate a square version of the frontcover for paperback
5. Generate a back cover image
6. Generate an image for the inside cover (below the title on the first page of the book)
7. Generate a two-sentence blurb for the back of the book.
8. Generate an image and text for each of the 12 content pages as well as the introduction and conclusion
9. Generate 5 recall (factual) questions and 5 reflect (contemplative) questions
10. Generate an accompanying image for the recall and reflect page
11. Download the following

• A word document containing the formatted hardcover version
• A word document containing the formatted paperback version
• The image for the front hardcover version, the image for the front paperback version, and the image for the back.

Notes

1. Note that the project is built to be used by one user at a time.