An AI chatbot app built with Next.js, the Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, and Vercel KV.
Features · Model Providers · Running locally · Authors
- Next.js App Router
- React Server Components (RSCs), Suspense, and Server Actions
- Vercel AI SDK for streaming chat UI
- Support for OpenAI (default), Anthropic, Cohere, Hugging Face, or custom AI chat models and/or LangChain
- shadcn/ui
- Styling with Tailwind CSS
- Radix UI for headless component primitives
- Icons from Phosphor Icons
- Chat History, rate limiting, and session storage with Vercel KV
- NextAuth.js for authentication
This template ships with OpenAI gpt-3.5-turbo
as the default. However, thanks to the Vercel AI SDK, you can switch LLM providers to Anthropic, Cohere, Hugging Face, or using LangChain with just a few lines of code.
Follow the steps outlined in the quick start guide provided by Vercel. This guide will assist you in creating and configuring your KV database instance on Vercel, enabling your application to interact with it.
Remember to update your environment variables (KV_URL
, KV_REST_API_URL
, KV_REST_API_TOKEN
, KV_REST_API_READ_ONLY_TOKEN
) in the .env
file with the appropriate credentials provided during the KV database setup.
You will need to use the environment variables defined in .env.example
to run Next.js AI Chatbot. It's recommended you use Vercel Environment Variables for this, but a .env
file is all that is necessary.
Note: You should not commit your
.env
file or it will expose secrets that will allow others to control access to your various OpenAI and authentication provider accounts.
- Install Vercel CLI:
npm i -g vercel
- Link local instance with Vercel and GitHub accounts (creates
.vercel
directory):vercel link
- Download your environment variables:
vercel env pull
pnpm install
pnpm dev
Your app template should now be running on localhost:3000.
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