This is a simple bare-bones example of streaming to the browser using OpenAI's Assistants API (Javascript SDK) on a node.js (Express) back end. Uses socket.io.
Pull requests are welcome to correct errors or improve simplicity and clarity of the code. It's my hope that this will actually be useful for someone else as a template to start AI web applications.
This has been tested on node.js v20, but likely works on 18. Highly recommend node version manager for managing node versions.
Create a .env file in the server directory and paste the following:
# server/.env
OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-OpenAI-API-key>
Replace <your-OpenAI-API-key> with your actual key.
In the server directory, run npm install
In the server directory, run node server.js
Visit http://localhost:3005