The Creator AI

Talk to LLMs with easy code context. Choose files through UI.

Prerequisites

Before installation, ensure you have the following software installed on your system:

• Git: For cloning the project repositories.
• Node.js and npm (or yarn): For managing and installing dependencies. Ensure your node version is at least 18.
• Serve: For running the frontend in development mode. (If you don't have serve installed, run npm install -g serve)

Installation

It's a self hosted web app. Below are the steps to get started -

1. Download the clone.sh script

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/The-Creator-AI/The-Creator-AI/main/clone.sh

2. Make clone.sh executable

chmod +x clone.sh

3. Run the clone.sh Script:

sudo ./clone.sh --tag v0.3.0

This script will handle the following:

• Clone the necessary repositories (frontend, backend, and common).
• Install all dependencies.
• Build the common package & frontend and backend projects.
• Create a convenient 'creator' command for launching the application.

Running The Creator AI

Once the installation is complete, you can start The Creator AI by simply typing:

1. Set Gemini API key

export GEMINI_API_KEY=...

2. Launch creator

creator .

This will launch both the frontend and backend, and open the application in your default web browser.

Note: You can provide which directory to load as argument to creator command - creator <directory>

Updating The Creator AI

Re-run the clone.sh Script:

sudo ./clone.sh --tag v0.3.0

This will update the repositories, install new dependencies (if any), and rebuild the project.

Install Manually

The clone.sh script is only tested on Mac so far, will be testing & supporting other platforms with time. Meanwhile, you can follow these steps to get the setup ready manually -

Step 1: Clone the Repositories

git clone https://github.com/The-Creator-AI/fe-be-common.git
git clone https://github.com/The-Creator-AI/frontend.git
git clone https://github.com/The-Creator-AI/backend.git

Step 2: Build & Run

1. Install common dependencies:

   cd ./fe-be-common       # <-----------------  Dependency for frontend & backend both, must be kept adjacent to those
   npm install
   npm run build           
   

2. Install backend dependencies:

   cd ./backend
   npm install
   npm run build
   export GEMINI_API_KEY=...
   node dist/main.js       # <-----------------   BACKEND
   

3. Install frontend dependencies:

   cd ./frontend
   npm install
   npm run build
   cd build
   serve -s                # <-----------------   FRONTEND
   

Releases

The steps above run the latest code. To run a specific release, checkout the tag for that release (in every repo). Latest stable tag is v0.3.0.

git fetch --all --tags
git checkout --force "tags/v0.3.0"

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any issues during installation or usage, please refer to the following:

• Error Messages: Pay close attention to any error messages displayed in your terminal. They often provide clues about the problem.
• GitHub Issues: Check the project repositories on GitHub for existing issue reports or open a new issue if you believe you've found a bug.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to help improve The Creator AI, feel free to fork the repositories and submit pull requests.

Release Notes

v0.3.0

• Updated design

v0.2.0

• Using socket for live updates

v0.1.0

• Initial release