API exposure to enable the integration with other web application platform

[ericq]

Just love the simplicity brought by this tool.

I'm using non rails platform (angularjs instead) and I'm wondering how to leverage the feature your tool brings. I don't expect anyone to re-write the tool. but is it possible that you expose your current capability into API. for example:

1. the request is an image, and the output is the color options?
2. the request is color options, and the optput is the css or less files?

In this way, I can run your app on the backend and I can put some angularjs app on the front end to interact with your API? If you're not interested in doing it, can you let me know the feasibility.

thanks.

[mquan]

Thanks for your interest in using lavish but I don't plan on releasing an API in the near future. If you're using javascript I think there are a few decent libs that offer the capability of extracting colors from given image, such as this https://github.com/lokesh/color-thief/

From there you can replace bootstrap colors in less and parse it to css

[ericq]

Thanks for the feedback. I think this will solve the #1 question. Do you have any comments on question #2? how to generate all the variables in bootstrap way? anything to reuse or we need to code from scratch?

[mquan]

@ericq that's the easy part, you just need to replace these variables in variables.less https://github.com/mquan/lavish/blob/master/app/controllers/styles_controller.rb#L30-L42

Hope this helps

[mquan]

btw, the colors are sorted in order of increasing darkness