Simple Chat

A simple chat fullstack web application using Open AI built with React and Node JS.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed the following on your machine:

Node (at least v18+ or higher)

# install node link: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager
# On a Mac use the following command

# installs nvm (Node Version Manager)
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

# download and install Node.js (you may need to restart the terminal)
nvm install 18

# verifies the right Node.js version is in the environment
node -v # should print `v18.20.3`

# verifies the right NPM version is in the environment
npm -v # should print `10.7.0`

Note: if you aren't using Mac, the link above 👆🏽 provides you various ways to install node on your machine

pnpm - is the package manager used in this project
bit cli

npx @teambit/bvm install
# you need to reload your bash profile to be able to access

docker - for containerization
docker-compose - if compose is not installed together with docker

What's inside?

This project used @teambit/bvm (bit) for bootstrapping the monorepo. You can read more about this tool on their documentation page

Up and running

Add environment variables

# Add .env at the root folder
OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx
GROQ_API_KEY=xxx

Install dependencies

bit install

Check if the apps are listed

bit app list # should show 2 apps (chat-ui and chat-service)

Run compose file

docker-compose up # -d (dettached mode)
# turn off services
docker-compose down

Run the application

# backend
bit run chat-service
# frontend
bit run chat-ui

Note: Whenever the backend service doesn't compile, try to run bit install && bit run chat-service to recompile the service. Then afterwards restart the frontend as well.