How I Build a Color Palette Generator - Personal Project with VueJs + Bulma
Tags: vue, design, beginners, tutorial
Published: 2020-03-17 15:59:21

Hi, 
So here is the initiative of this post. Maybe you know already(if you read some of my previous posts) that I was really busy but Now as my exams are postponed due to COVID-19 and isolation from the outside gatherings is really helping to stay more positive and invest in myself.
 So I took the first step by waking up early and read some news + learn something new(not related to web or technology). I also decided to work on pet projects to refresh my coding skills. So Today I made a Color Palette Generator, so here are some details about it but first of all I'm going to share the total procedure I followed to design the whole project:

#### Design Procedure
 - You've to decide what the final result will look like, even before writing the first line of code.
 - First of all, decide the name of the project. There are some of the tricks you can consider.
 - Translate the name of the obvious thing into some other language, For Example:
If you're building a screenshot tool then you should try Google Translate cause it suggests some really good names like this: 
![Google Translate](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/pse9kh56yekxlcr8sjo1.png)
 - Now the next thing is to create a perfect logo, cause it'll make your project looks professional to you and you'll market it better in the community. You should look up to [dribbble](https://dribbble.com/) for logo inspirations, I'm not telling you to design a robust complicated logo, just create a simple one.
 *Which Tool to Use?*
 I use Figma all the time and you should use it to just grab some free SVG icons, pick up a color palette and use any free font available in Figma, and then export it in PNG Format. Tadddda! You got the new logo.
 - Write down all the steps, make a checklist from creating a page to final touches.

#### So How was the over-all experience building the project?
 - It took me almost 3 hours.
 - It was really refreshing, I got that feeling after a very long time.
 - I also tried [Surge.sh](https://www.surge.sh) very first time. It's quite easy to use, and if you just want to publish a very simple website or just a single page just run the command and then done! it's online.

#### What Technologies I used to build it?
 - Bulma CSS (My CSS Buddy for a long time now)
 - VueJS (It's a SPA)
 - [Colormind API](http://colormind.io/)
 - Axios to fetch the data

#### Some other things to mention?
Yup, I refactored the code a lot and made simple standalone components. I also made a function to change RGB to HEX. Here it is we have to pass the array as argument:
```javascript
rgbToHEX(rgb) {
      let r = rgb[0].toString(16);
      let g = rgb[1].toString(16);
      let b = rgb[2].toString(16);

      if (r.length == 1)
        r = "0" + r;
      if (g.length == 1)
        g = "0" + g;
      if (b.length == 1)
        b = "0" + b;

      return "#" + r + g + b;
   },
```

So What was the end result?
*Note:* I don't care about the color palette project, cause I'm going to create so many projects in next 15 days but all I wanted to share is the whole process.
I started working on the project in the morning where I picked up the name "Rangeeni" means Coloring in Urdu, Then I designed a logo in Figma which looks like this:
![Rangeeni Logo - Color Pallete](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/qow60it6t9jxr0ak37va.png)

Then I completed the whole project in 3 hours and you can look at here and let me know how it is:
![Rangeeni - Robust AI-powered color palette generator](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/myve3092ae2x71b1utws.png)
## [Rangeeni - Robust AI-powered color palette generator](http://www.rangeeni.surge.sh)

See the whole code here and it's quite different because it's not too much and you'll find this approach amazing. 
Find Code here: [https://github.com/justaashir/rangeeni_color_picker](https://github.com/justaashir/rangeeni_color_picker)

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