Integrating ComfyUI's API Into a React App Nearly Broke Me — Here's How I Did It

I've been building web apps for a while now. REST APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets - the usual suspects. Nothing really surprises me anymore when it comes to integrating a backend. Then I tried to integrate ComfyUI. ComfyUI, if you haven't used it, is basically THE tool for local image generation right now. It's insanely powerful - you build image generation pipelines by connecting nodes in a visual graph editor. Stable Diffusion, Flux, ControlNet, upscaling, inpainting - if it exists in the image gen world, ComfyUI probably s it. The catch? Its API is. unique.