🧰 Developer Resources & API Documentation
Welcome to the Twisted Artists Guild Developer Hub—where artist-first engineering meets open collaboration. Whether you're building tools to elevate creatives, integrating with our cooperative systems, or contributing to our mission directly, TAG is built to support a vibrant, extensible app ecosystem.
We embrace a hybrid philosophy: build thoughtfully in-house, integrate where it saves creators time, and share our work transparently. Our platform architecture is modular, mobile-ready, and optimized for open source contribution—from bug fixes to entirely new features.
🔓 Open Source & Community-Driven
We're not just building software—we're building shared infrastructure. That's why both our front-end and back-end source code are fully open and MIT licensed:
We welcome forks, feature branches, pull requests, and community feedback. If you're aligned with our mission of artist empowerment through ethical tech, we want you contributing. Our GitHub issues, internal changelogs, and future SDKs are all designed for transparent collaboration.
🎨 Front-End Framework
- Stack: Next.js + DaisyUI + TailwindCSS for themeable, scalable styling
- Modular Components: Shared elements abstracted for reuse across the platform
- Live Forms: Database-stored, editable without code redeploys
- Mobile First: All UI designed for touch and screen flexibility
- Discovery UX:
- Bloomscrolling: Infinite scroll tuned to art interests
- Social features: Likes, shares, comments
- Messaging: Direct and group artist communication
- Labeling: Highlights contest winners and promoted listings
⚙️ Back-End Architecture
- Platform Stack: C# with Entity Framework (Code-First)
- API Design:
- Full CRUD coverage across data models
- Nested routes exposing relational data (e.g. artist + listings + cover image)
- Security Layer: Role-based authorization middleware
- Finance Tools:
- Double-entry accounting integrations
- PCI-compliant payment vendor passthrough
- Event Ticketing:
- Anti-scalping protections (FIFO queues, ticket transfer validation)
- Waitlist systems for equitable distribution of limited access
🛠️ DevOps & Infrastructure
- Version Control: GitHub Enterprise with full issue tracking and contributions
- CI/CD:
- Pipeline auto-publishes DB migrations
- Deploys to regionally scaled Azure staging & production slots
- Future Features:
- Native mobile apps with offline caching
- QR-ticketing + POS printer integration
- Event dashboard analytics + booth tools
- Exportable artist portfolios and visual messaging modules
🧩 Integrations & SDK (Coming Soon)
Third-party modules and vendor services welcomed—especially those that support:
- Portfolio analytics
- Accounting dashboards
- Intelligent discovery + recommendation
- Merchandise fulfillment and pricing tools
Our planned SDK will expose key platform modules for reuse, from contests to ticketing engines.
🎯 Developer Philosophy
At TAG, code is community. Whether you're debugging a layout or shipping an accounting tool, you're building infrastructure that benefits artists directly. If your contributions foster creator equity, sustainability, or visibility—we’re eager to support you.