jabarjung / imagepicker

A web based image picking tool.

Image Picker - Unsplash

It's a web tool to search for images from Unsplash using a keyword. Once a user has find an image which he/she likes then user can set that particular image as the background for the app.

Getting Started

You will need the following tools to run this app:

1. A web browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Firefox or any other).

2. Install Node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/. It will also install 'npm' on your computer.

• To check if you have Node.js installed, run this command in your terminal:

node -v

• To confirm that you have npm installed you can run this command in your terminal:

npm -v

3. Install http-server available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server. Run the following command to install it globally.

sudo npm install http-server -g

4. Get the API credentials i.e. App ID and API Secret Key from Unsplash (unsplash.com).

Running the App

1. Clone this repo to your local drive.

git clone https://github.com/jabarjung/imagepicker.git

2. Open Terminal app and cd to the root directory of the app i.e. 'imagepicker' or whatever you have renamed it to.
3. Run the following command:

http-server -p 3000 (You can choose different port if you want)

4. Open the browser and go to 'localhost:3000' and it should run the app.

Author

• Jabarjung Sandhu