🤖 Text-to-Image Server

Use Node.js, Express, and OpenAI to create a text-to-image API

Why do we store the API key as an env variable?

Server Setup

First, make sure to sign up for an OpenAI account and create an API key. Then store the API key in a file named .env. If it’s included in your .gitignore, this file will be ignored by Git so that you don’t accidentally share your API key with the world.

touch server.js

npm i dotenv express cors openai
node server.js

Text-to-Image Code

import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
dotenv.config();

import { Configuration, OpenAIApi } from 'openai';

const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI,
});

const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration);

import express from 'express';
import cors from 'cors';

const app = express();
app.use(cors());
app.use(express.json());

app.post('/dream', async (req, res) => {
    const prompt = req.body.prompt;

    const aiResponse = await openai.createImage({
      prompt,
      n: 1,
      size: '1024x1024',
    });

    const image = aiResponse.data.data[0].url;
    res.send({ image });
});

app.listen(8080, () => console.log('make art on http://localhost:8080/dream'));

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