wtf is adobeio-samples-stock-search?

This repository is a sample app that shows developers how to build a custom application using Adobe's App Builder platform, specifically one that searches for images through the Adobe Stock photo service. It serves as a hands-on starting point for anyone who wants to integrate Adobe Stock's massive library of photos, illustrations, and videos into their own custom tools or workflows. At a high level, the app is split into two parts. There is a front-end interface that users interact with, and a set of backend "actions" that do the actual work of talking to the Adobe Stock API. Developers run a command line tool called aio to start the app locally, test it, and eventually deploy it to Adobe's cloud infrastructure. The backend actions can either run on Adobe's servers or locally on the developer's own machine for testing. The primary audience is developers building extensions or apps within the Adobe ecosystem, such as a creative agency that wants a custom interface for their team to search and pull licensed Stock assets directly into their internal tools. Instead of building everything from scratch, they can use this project as a template, plug in their own Adobe credentials, and immediately have a working search interface to customize. What is notable about the project is that it is clearly structured as a scaffold or template rather than a finished product. The README focuses almost entirely on setup, configuration, and deployment commands, and doesn't go into detail about the specific user interface design or the exact search features included. It supports both JavaScript and TypeScript for the front-end, and offers two different ways to package backend code depending on whether a developer prioritizes smaller file sizes or cleaner dependency management.