imajin/docs/development

Development Guide

Resources for developing and contributing to the @image platform.

Quick Links

Guide	Description
Getting Started	Environment setup and first run
Client Libraries	Using TypeScript clients
Testing	Testing strategies

Development Stack

Service	Language	Framework
imagen-app	TypeScript	React, Vite
imagegen-assistant	Python	FastAPI
image-generation	Python	FastAPI
image-processing	TypeScript	NestJS

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ (for TypeScript services)
• Python 3.10+ (for ML services)
• CUDA 12.x (for GPU acceleration)
• Redis (for GPU coordination)

Common Commands

All Services

# Install dependencies
npm install           # TypeScript
pip install -e .      # Python

# Build
npm run build

# Test
npm run test
npm run typecheck

Service-Specific

# imagen-app
cd imagen-app
npm run dev           # Start dev server (port 3010)
npm run build:core    # Build core library
npm run build:react   # Build React components

# image-generation
cd image-generation
npm run service:dev   # Start FastAPI dev server (port 8002)

# imagegen-assistant
cd imagegen-assistant
npm run service:dev   # Start FastAPI dev server (port 8003)

# image-processing
cd image-processing/service
npm run start:dev     # Start NestJS dev server (port 8004)

Code Standards

TypeScript

• Strict mode enabled
• Zod for runtime validation
• ESLint + Prettier formatting

Python

• Type hints required
• Pydantic for data validation
• Ruff for linting
• mypy for type checking

Monorepo Structure

Each service follows the same pattern:

service-name/
├── service/     # Backend (Python/NestJS)
├── types/       # TypeScript types (@lilith/*-types)
├── client/      # HTTP client (@lilith/*-client)
└── package.json # npm workspaces

IDE Setup

VS Code Extensions

• Python (ms-python.python)
• Pylance (ms-python.vscode-pylance)
• ESLint (dbaeumer.vscode-eslint)
• Prettier (esbenp.prettier-vscode)

Workspace Settings

{
  "python.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "strict",
  "typescript.tsdk": "node_modules/typescript/lib"
}