ASCII ART Convertor

This project is a web server to host a full stack website that converts Images given by a user to ASCII ART images.

The project uses a Flask x Gunicorn back-end server, and Svelte for the front.

You can see a live example on ascii.drawbu.dev.

Installation

Nix

If you have nix, you can use the following:

nix build

Nix provide a ascii-server script in the result/bin folder to run the server, provided a path to the socket file.

You can also directly use nix run path/to/repo#server -- [sock].

Make

Note: If you have the make utility, you can use the following:

make

Other

Or, you can do the setup manually:
Set up the back-end:

pip install -r requirements.txt
gunicorn wsgi:app

Set up the front-end:

cd client
npm install
npm run autobuild