### Project Setup and Server Startup Commands

Source: https://github.com/mahmoudalnkeeb/ideogram-creations/blob/main/README.md

Commands required to install project dependencies, start the Redis server (a prerequisite), and launch the main application server, making the API available locally.

```bash
npm install
redis-server
npm run start
```

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### Environment Variables Configuration

Source: https://github.com/mahmoudalnkeeb/ideogram-creations/blob/main/README.md

Essential environment variables for configuring the application, including network port, external service URLs, SSL settings, Redis connection, and image generation wait times.

```bash
PORT=3000
EXTERNAL_PHOTO_URL="This can be found in the ideogram.ai in /login request payload"
LOCATION = "This can be found in the ideogram.ai in /submit request payload"
SSL_ENABLED=false
SSL_KEY_PATH="SSL KEY PATH GOES HERE"
SSL_CERT_PATH="SSL CERT PATH GOES HERE"
USE_QUEUE=true
REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379"
WAIT_TIME_SECONDS=30 # 30 for free tier and 3 for pro tier
```

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### API Endpoint: POST /create-image

Source: https://github.com/mahmoudalnkeeb/ideogram-creations/blob/main/README.md

Documentation for the `POST /create-image` API endpoint, which accepts a text prompt to generate images and returns an array of URLs to the generated images.

```APIDOC
POST /create-image
Description: Generates images based on a text prompt.
```

```json
{
  "prompt": "A scene of a room with a giant PC. The PC has a glass casing and is filled with liquid. There are control panels around the PC. The room has an industrial feel, with pipes and vents on the walls."
}
```

```json
[
  "https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/{response_id}",
  "https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/{response_id}",
  "https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/{response_id}",
  "https://ideogram.ai/assets/image/lossless/response/{response_id}"
]
```

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