Chat SDK

A free, open-source template built with Next.js and the AI SDK that helps you quickly build powerful chatbot applications.

Features

Next.js App Router

• Advanced routing for seamless navigation and performance
• React Server Components (RSCs) and Server Actions for server-side rendering and increased performance

AI SDK

• Unified API for generating text, structured objects, and tool calls with LLMs
• Hooks for building dynamic chat and generative user interfaces
• Supports xAI (default), OpenAI, Fireworks, and other model providers

shadcn/ui

• Styling with Tailwind CSS
• Component primitives from Radix UI for accessibility and flexibility

Data Persistence

• Neon Serverless Postgres for saving chat history and user data
• Vercel Blob for efficient file storage

Auth.js

• Simple and secure authentication

Models

This template ships with xAI grok-2-1212 as the default chat model. However, with the AI SDK, you can switch LLM providers to OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and many more with just a few lines of code.

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 AI and authentication provider accounts.

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Your app template should now be running on localhost:3000.