diff --git a/.env b/.env
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+# Supported values:
+# - VIDEOCHAIN
+# - REPLICATE
+# - INFERENCE_ENDPOINT
+# - INFERENCE_API
+# - OPENAI
+RENDERING_ENGINE="INFERENCE_API"
+
+# Supported values:
+# - INFERENCE_ENDPOINT
+# - INFERENCE_API
+# - OPENAI
+LLM_ENGINE="INFERENCE_API"
+
+NEXT_PUBLIC_MAX_NB_PAGES="2"
+
+# Not implemented for the Inference API yet - you can submit a PR if you have some ideas
+NEXT_PUBLIC_CAN_UPSCALE="false"
+
+# Not implemented for the Inference API yet - you can submit a PR if you have some ideas
+NEXT_PUBLIC_CAN_REDRAW="false"
+
+# Set to "true" to create artificial delays and smooth out traffic
+NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_RATE_LIMITER="false"
+
+# ------------- PROVIDER AUTH ------------
+# You only need to configure the access token(s) for the provider(s) you want to use
+
+# HuggingFace.co token: available for the LLM engine and the RENDERING engine
+AUTH_HF_API_TOKEN=
+
+# Replicate.com token: available for the RENDERING engine
+AUTH_REPLICATE_API_TOKEN=
+
+# OpenAI.dom token: available for the LLM engine and the RENDERING engine
+AUTH_OPENAI_API_KEY=
+
+# An experimental RENDERING engine (sorry it is not very documented yet, so you can use one of the other engines)
+AUTH_VIDEOCHAIN_API_TOKEN=
+
+# ------------- RENDERING API CONFIG --------------
+
+# If you decided to use Replicate for the RENDERING engine
+RENDERING_REPLICATE_API_MODEL="stabilityai/sdxl"
+RENDERING_REPLICATE_API_MODEL_VERSION="da77bc59ee60423279fd632efb4795ab731d9e3ca9705ef3341091fb989b7eaf"
+
+# If you decided to use a private Hugging Face Inference Endpoint for the RENDERING engine
+RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_ENDPOINT_URL="https://XXXXXXXXXX.endpoints.huggingface.cloud"
+
+# If you decided to use a Hugging Face Inference API model for the RENDERING engine
+RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_API_BASE_MODEL="stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0"
+
+# If you decided to use a Hugging Face Inference API model for the RENDERING engine
+RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_API_REFINER_MODEL="stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-refiner-1.0"
+
+# If your model returns a different file type (eg. jpg or webp) change it here
+RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_API_FILE_TYPE="image/png"
+
+# An experimental RENDERING engine (sorry it is not very documented yet, so you can use one of the other engines)
+RENDERING_VIDEOCHAIN_API_URL="http://localhost:7860"
+
+RENDERING_OPENAI_API_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1"
+RENDERING_OPENAI_API_MODEL="dall-e-3"
+
+# ------------- LLM API CONFIG ----------------
+
+# If you decided to use OpenAI for the LLM engine
+LLM_OPENAI_API_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1"
+LLM_OPENAI_API_MODEL="gpt-4"
+
+# If you decided to use a private Hugging Face Inference Endpoint for the LLM engine
+LLM_HF_INFERENCE_ENDPOINT_URL=""
+
+# If you decided to use a Hugging Face Inference API model for the LLM engine
+# LLM_HF_INFERENCE_API_MODEL="meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-chat-hf"
+LLM_HF_INFERENCE_API_MODEL="HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta"
+
+# ----------- COMMUNITY SHARING (OPTIONAL) -----------
+# You don't need those community sharing options to run the AI Comic Factory
+# locally or on your own server (they are meant to be used by the Hugging Face team)
+NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_COMMUNITY_SHARING="false"
+COMMUNITY_API_URL=
+COMMUNITY_API_TOKEN=
+COMMUNITY_API_ID=
+
+# ----------- CENSORSHIP (OPTIONAL) -----------
+# censorship is currently disabled, but will be required when we create a "community roll"
+# (a public repositoruy of user-generated comic strips)
+ENABLE_CENSORSHIP="false"
+
+# Due to the sensitive nature of some of keywords we want to ban (users try all kind of crazy illegal things)
+# the words are are not put in clear in the source code, but behind an encryption key
+# (I don't want the project to be flagged by an AI robot police on GitHub or something)
+SECRET_FINGERPRINT=""
diff --git a/.eslintrc.json b/.eslintrc.json
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+{
+ "extends": "next/core-web-vitals"
+}
+
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# See https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/ for more about ignoring files.
+
+node_modules
+
+# dependencies
+/node_modules
+/.pnp
+.pnp.js
+
+# testing
+/coverage
+
+# next.js
+/.next/
+/out/
+
+# production
+/build
+
+# misc
+.DS_Store
+*.pem
+
+# debug
+npm-debug.log*
+yarn-debug.log*
+yarn-error.log*
+
+# local env files
+.env*.local
+
+# vercel
+.vercel
+
+# typescript
+*.tsbuildinfo
+next-env.d.ts
+
+pnpm-lock.yaml
diff --git a/.nvmrc b/.nvmrc
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+v20.9.0
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
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+This project was developed by Julian Bilcke (@jbilcke-hf), as part of his work at Hugging Face.
+
+------------------------------------------
+
+A huge thanks to external developers for their contributions!
+
+艾逗笔 (@idoubi):
+- [feature] Added support for OpenAI: https://github.com/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory/pull/6
+- [bug] predict import error (use dynamic imports for the LLM provider): https://github.com/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory/pull/9
+
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+FROM node:20-alpine AS base
+
+# Install dependencies only when needed
+FROM base AS deps
+# Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed.
+RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Install dependencies based on the preferred package manager
+COPY package.json yarn.lock* package-lock.json* pnpm-lock.yaml* ./
+RUN \
+ if [ -f yarn.lock ]; then yarn --frozen-lockfile; \
+ elif [ -f package-lock.json ]; then npm ci; \
+ elif [ -f pnpm-lock.yaml ]; then yarn global add pnpm && pnpm i --frozen-lockfile; \
+ else echo "Lockfile not found." && exit 1; \
+ fi
+
+# Uncomment the following lines if you want to use a secret at buildtime,
+# for example to access your private npm packages
+# RUN --mount=type=secret,id=HF_EXAMPLE_SECRET,mode=0444,required=true \
+# $(cat /run/secrets/HF_EXAMPLE_SECRET)
+
+# Rebuild the source code only when needed
+FROM base AS builder
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=deps /app/node_modules ./node_modules
+COPY . .
+
+# Next.js collects completely anonymous telemetry data about general usage.
+# Learn more here: https://nextjs.org/telemetry
+# Uncomment the following line in case you want to disable telemetry during the build.
+# ENV NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED 1
+
+# RUN yarn build
+
+# If you use yarn, comment out this line and use the line above
+RUN npm run build
+
+# Production image, copy all the files and run next
+FROM base AS runner
+WORKDIR /app
+
+ENV NODE_ENV production
+# Uncomment the following line in case you want to disable telemetry during runtime.
+# ENV NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED 1
+
+RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs
+RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs
+
+COPY --from=builder /app/public ./public
+
+# Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size
+# https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing
+COPY --from=builder --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/.next/standalone ./
+COPY --from=builder --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/.next/static ./.next/static
+COPY --from=builder --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/.next/cache ./.next/cache
+# COPY --from=builder --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/.next/cache/fetch-cache ./.next/cache/fetch-cache
+
+USER nextjs
+
+EXPOSE 3000
+
+ENV PORT 3000
+
+CMD ["node", "server.js"]
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index df4cadc33cda860c8d6a7b9da698f145d61f5f29..e07020766b537cc099f86def7f0cf378bde7f9e9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,11 +1,160 @@
---
-title: Ai Comic Generator
-emoji: 💻
-colorFrom: green
-colorTo: blue
+title: AI Comic Factory
+emoji: 👩🎨
+colorFrom: red
+colorTo: yellow
sdk: docker
-pinned: false
-license: mit
+pinned: true
+app_port: 3000
+disable_embedding: true
---
-Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference
+# AI Comic Factory
+
+*(note: the website "aicomicfactory.com" is not affiliated with the AI Comic Factory project, nor it is created or maintained by the AI Comic Factory team. If you see their website has an issue, please contact them directly)*
+
+## Running the project at home
+
+First, I would like to highlight that everything is open-source (see [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory/tree/main), [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/jbilcke-hf/VideoChain-API/tree/main), [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/SD-XL/tree/main), [here](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference)).
+
+However the project isn't a monolithic Space that can be duplicated and ran immediately:
+it requires various components to run for the frontend, backend, LLM, SDXL etc.
+
+If you try to duplicate the project, open the `.env` you will see it requires some variables.
+
+Provider config:
+- `LLM_ENGINE`: can be one of: "INFERENCE_API", "INFERENCE_ENDPOINT", "OPENAI"
+- `RENDERING_ENGINE`: can be one of: "INFERENCE_API", "INFERENCE_ENDPOINT", "REPLICATE", "VIDEOCHAIN", "OPENAI" for now, unless you code your custom solution
+
+Auth config:
+- `AUTH_HF_API_TOKEN`: only if you decide to use OpenAI for the LLM engine necessary if you decide to use an inference api model or a custom inference endpoint
+- `AUTH_OPENAI_TOKEN`: only if you decide to use OpenAI for the LLM engine
+- `AITH_VIDEOCHAIN_API_TOKEN`: secret token to access the VideoChain API server
+- `AUTH_REPLICATE_API_TOKEN`: in case you want to use Replicate.com
+
+Rendering config:
+- `RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_ENDPOINT_URL`: necessary if you decide to use a custom inference endpoint
+- `RENDERING_REPLICATE_API_MODEL_VERSION`: url to the VideoChain API server
+- `RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_ENDPOINT_URL`: optional, default to nothing
+- `RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_API_BASE_MODEL`: optional, defaults to "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0"
+- `RENDERING_HF_INFERENCE_API_REFINER_MODEL`: optional, defaults to "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-refiner-1.0"
+- `RENDERING_REPLICATE_API_MODEL`: optional, defaults to "stabilityai/sdxl"
+- `RENDERING_REPLICATE_API_MODEL_VERSION`: optional, in case you want to change the version
+
+Language model config:
+- `LLM_HF_INFERENCE_ENDPOINT_URL`: "