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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 Google (default), OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and other model providers
- shadcn/ui
- Styling with Tailwind CSS
- Component primitives from Radix UI for accessibility and flexibility
- Data Persistence
- Vercel Postgres powered by Neon for saving chat history and user data
- Vercel Blob for efficient object storage
- NextAuth.js
- Simple and secure authentication
Model Providers
This template ships with Google Gemini gemini-1.5-pro
models as the default. However, with the AI SDK, you can switch LLM providers to OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and many more 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:
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 Google Cloud 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 installpnpm dev
Your app template should now be running on localhost:3000.
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