Painterly is an application that aims to unleash your creativity by allowing you to create digital paintings using your computer mouse and save them to your profile and to a public gallery. You can also save paintings to collections.
Backend repo: https://github.com/annacarey/painterly-backend
You can find the application live at: https://painterly-app.herokuapp.com/
This application was built in React (frontend) and Ruby on Rails (backend). The most challenging and exciting part of this project was creating the painting functionality on the board. Each "board" or "canvas" is composed of 625 individual cells, each of which is a React component. Color is implemented by changing state on each of the cells, and I used memoization to prevent every cell from re-rendering each time one had a change in state -- this was necessary for performance. The "board" is also saved on the backend in Postgres in a 2-D array, so that the painting can be shown on other parts of the site and edited.
- Log in or sign up.
- Create a painting by selecting colors from the toolbar and using your mouse to click and drag across the digital canvas.
- When you save a painting it saves to your profile and to a public gallery.
- Create collections to organize your favorite paintings and group them together.
- Add paintings to collections from the public gallery.
Clone down this repository. You will need yarn installed globally on your machine.
You can run the following scripts:
yarn start
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
yarn test
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
yarn build
Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
If you want to contact me, you can reach out at [email protected].
Copyright (c) 2020 Anna Carey
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