Next.js AI Chatbot

An open-source AI chatbot app template built with Next.js, the Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, and Vercel KV.

Features · Model Providers · Deploy Your Own · Running locally · Authors

Features

Next.js App Router
React Server Components (RSCs), Suspense, and Server Actions
Vercel AI SDK for streaming chat UI
Support for OpenAI (default), Anthropic, HuggingFace, or custom AI chat models and/or LangChain
Edge runtime-ready
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
Next Auth for authentication

Model Providers

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, HuggingFace, or using LangChain with just a few lines of code.

Deploy Your Own

You can deploy your own version of the Next.js AI Chatbot to Vercel with one click:

Creating a KV Database Instance

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.

Running locally

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.

Authors

This library is created by Vercel and Next.js team members, with contributions from:

Jared Palmer (@jaredpalmer) - Vercel
Shu Ding (@shuding_) - Vercel
shadcn (@shadcn) - Contractor