RobustChat
Official Docs: https://jjrohrer.github.io/RobustChat/
(FYI: This self-published from /docs)
Mission
Create an open-ai style chat library suitable for the PHP to mostly reusable in their own applications, including a well-refined UI.
We will emphasize the following
- Understandable Code
- Self-documented code
- Orientation document(s) that explain how the code fits together
- Learning Opportunities
- Emphasizing educating other developers on how come up-to-speed on ai and this package
- Flexible Deployment
- Lots of examples of how to customize for your own use-cases (tweaking the UI, turning off features, etc.)
- Compatability with Laravel and Symfony
- Good test cases and development cases
- Production-ready-flags (like, removing some development-only features)
Tech Stack
- Laravel 10+ (and Symfony, in future)
- Tailwind
- Livewire 3 + Alpine 3
- OpenAi API
- https://github.com/orhanerday/open-ai (and https://github.com/openai-php/client, in future)
Motivation
This started as an offshoot of making a chat-like WebApp for interacting with AIs in the business-education space. After getting some proof-of-concept going, I found the edge-details around implementing streaming and reactive UI was starting to get tricky, leading to a potential re-architecting of the app. This was going to stretch my own knowledge, but it also could become an opportunity for me to better engage the community, and even give back a bit.
Roadmap
Stage 1 (Basics)
- Useful Links
- Hello World with API to openAi (blocking)
- Hello World with API to openAi (streaming)
Stage 2 (Chat)
- Multi-Bubble chat stream
- Instant submit and appropriate scrolling
Stage 3
- ( ) Each bubble with ability to show extra details (like, debug hints)
- Proper scrolling (re-scroll upon submit, and indicate scroll on response if scrolled up)
- Scroll window, not whole page (so submit stays on-screen)
Stage 4
- Customizable UI
- Ensure lots of stuff not included on production
- Make sure the examples work on your local machine (and people know how to make that happen)
Stage 5
- FilamentPHP DevCheck Card
PHP Evangelization
Python & REACT get most of the love out in the real-world. Showing nicely-refined UI with LLMs is a nice way to for PHP to properly reclaim its appropriate glory. More importantly, we believe a core value of PHP has been its supportive community and well-documented projects - this is an opportunity to continue this.
Personal Backstory
I’ve developed php on-and-off since 2002-ish. Most of my projects have been fairly private, so this is my attempt to engage more publically.