Slickr✨️

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Introducing Slickr ✌️

Slick is the most powerful and the easiest app to create beautiful cover images for your hashnode blog. Slickr lets you be flexible by handling backgrounds, gradients, patterns, images, icons, bookmarks, uploads and a lot more. You can drag, resize and position your components and give a new feel to your blog. When you're done export it as PNG, JPG, or SVG. Say hello to Slickr 🤟

Read blog to understand better 📖

🚀 Demo

Try the App: Slickr

🧐 Features

Slickr comes up with a whole bunch of amazing features to provide you the best experience, Here're some of our best features.

Supercharge your hashnode blog with slickr.

💯 Draggable, Resizable, Wrappable
🎩 Upload your Images and use it
👾 32,000+ Icons (powered by iconsfinder)
📦 Use Images from Unsplash
🔖 Save Icons or Images
🍭 Edit Everything (text, color, size, family, weight, lineheight etc)
🌱 4 way backgrounds (Solid, Gradient, Pattern, Image)
🥁 Share Images (Get Public Share URL)
🌘 Dark mode
👤 Join using Google, Github, Facebook
💻 Fully Responsive
🚀 Fast Downloading
⤵️ Export as PNG, JPG, SVG

Enjoy creating cover image for your hashnode blog like never before, get started in seconds ✨️

🛠️ Installation Steps

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/saviomartin/slickr.git

Change the working directory

cd slickr

Install dependencies

npm install

Create .env file in root and add your variables

NEXT_PUBLIC_UNSPLASH_CLIENT_ID=UNSPLASH_CLIENT_ID
NEXT_PUBLIC_IMGBB_STORAGE_KEY=IMGBB_STORAGE_ACESS_KEY
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_FRONTEND_API=CLERK_FRONTEND_API

Run the app

npm run dev

You are all set! Open localhost:3000 to see the app.

🍰 Contributing

Please contribute using GitHub Flow. Create a branch, add commits, and open a pull request.
Please read CONTRIBUTING for details on our CODE OF CONDUCT, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

💻 Built with

Next JS
Clerk: Complete User Authentication
react-color: for color pickers
html2canvas: for export as PNG, JPG, SVG
react-rnd: for draggable and resizable components
react-icons: for icons
nprogress: for slim progressbars
react-hot-toast: for toasts
Material UI: for components
Vercel: for hosting

🌈 What's next

Slickr is a special project made to empower the amazing hashnode community in the hop to see great articles with beautiful covers. Here are some of my plans ahead for Slickr 🤞

Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for components
history of created covers (in progress)
Export as GIF (in progress)
Collaborate with patner
Templates
Better Position Tracker
Rotatable, Scalable, Groupable Components

🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🦄 Deploy

👨‍💻 Author

👤 Savio Martin

Twitter: @SavioMartin7
Github: @saviomartin
Hashnode: @saviomartin

🙏 Support

This project needs a ⭐️ from you. Don't forget to leave a star ⭐️

If you found the app helpful, consider supporting me with a coffee.

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