This article teaches how to quickly build an AI chatbot using React, Vite, and Cohere’s API, with a backend integration using Express.
Setting up a basic React project with Vite.
Creating an Express server to interact with Cohere's API.
Using Cohere’s AI platform for natural language generation.
Building a responsive chatbot interface in React.
The project can be enhanced with features like Speech-to-text and text-to-speech integration, persistent conversations stored in a database, or a more polished design using a CSS framework like Tailwind.
Basic knowledge of React, JavaScript, and Node.js, and a Cohere account (sign up here to get an API key) are prerequisites.
Never share your .env file or commit it to version control. Add .env to your .gitignore file.
The complete source code for this project is available on GitHub at AI Chatbot with React and Cohere.