A GUI for a stable diffusion algorithm

I'm a guy who lives in a third world country where $10/m is too much for a text-to-image tool - midjourney. Desperate times calls for desperate measures, I've looked for the general algorithm to generate images from text input and found out the stable diffusion. This work provides a simple GUI and an endpoint for the implementation of an open source simple diffusion algorithm.

About this repo

First of all, the algorithm itself does not belong to me. It is an open source algorithm and belongs to CompVis, a HuggingFace organization (Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser). I just figured it out how to use it, provided an endpoint with FastAPI and a GUI with React.

In order to use it

Backend:

• You need an access token for HuggingFace. It is very simple to get; just register, go to settings, ask for the token.
• You need python 3.10+ and pip installed.
• After cloning the repo, install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt.
• huggingface-hub 0.9.1 will be installed with requirements. Run huggingface-cli login. At this step, it will direct you to the page which you can associate your HuggingFace token with the code.
• Now you can run uvicorn app.main:app --reload command. This command will provide you the and point the GUI needs.

Frontend:

• You need nodejs installed in your computer.
• If you've already installed nodejs, go to \stable-diffusion\gui\stable-diffusion-gui folder in your terminal and run npm start.
• A web page which you can use to create images will pop up.

Some important points:

• If you expect something strong like midjourney, you may be disappointed. This is still good, but not that good.
• In order to run the tool properly, both backend and frontend part must run simultaneously.
• This algorithm runs on your GPU. If your GPU is weak it may not provide good results.
• I named this app as "teyobeylerjourney". It is a midjourney reference as you may guess (teyobeyler is my nickname). Fun stuff.

Well, have fun!