This clone is made with React and Node and uses OpenAI API.

• get your api key from https://openai.com/api/

Make sure you have installed all of the following prerequisites on your development machine:

• Git - Download & Install Git. OSX and Linux machines typically have this already installed.
• Node.js - Download & Install Node.js and the npm package manager. If you encounter any problems, you can also use this GitHub Gist to install Node.js.

The recommended way to get ChatGPT clone is to use git to directly clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/followDev/react-chatgpt.git

create .env file in client/

VITE_API_URL=http://localhost:8000

create .env in root folder

OPENAI_API_KEY = YOU_API_KEY_HERE
MONGO_URI = mongodb://0.0.0.0:27017/chatGPT

open terminal/bash in this repo and enter below commands to start the application

→ To start the server

$ npm run dev

→ To start the client app

$ cd client
$ npm run dev

• Your client application should run on port 5137 with the development environment configuration, so in your browser just go to http://localhost:5173

• Your server application should run on port 8000, so in your browser just go to http://localhost:8000