ReBac

Brief Description

ReBac is a simple web application for removing backgrounds from images. It is controlled using a simple web interface.

Note: ReBac was created as a means to understand Docker and React.

How To Run It

The Normal way

The ReBac application is divided into FrontEnd (client folder) and BackEnd (api folder). If you want to run the applications without problems, you must run both FrontEnd and BackEnd independently.

BackEnd

The BackEnd application runs on Python. To run BackEnd, go to the api folder and run the package installation command (I recommend creating a virtual environment before installing packages):

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then just run the application:

python app.py

The first time you run it, it will download the background removal model. The application runs on port 5000.

Note: The BackEnd application uses mostly the rembg package by Daniel Gatis

FrontEnd

I use React as FrontEnd (To run FrontEnd you need to have Note.js and npm installed). Go to the client folder and install the necessary packages:

npm install

Finally, run the application:

npm run dev

FrontEnd runs on port 3000.

Using Docker

Docker is the easiest way to run a ReBac application. In the ReBac directory, run this command:

docker compose up

This will create two images: rebac-api (running on port 5000) and rebac-client (set to port 3000 in compose.yaml but running on port 80 in Docker).

If the build was successful, the application should run at:

127.0.0.1:3000

To run the application again, just type:

docker compose up