HTMXLLMChat

A simple frontend for chatting with and organizing conversations with Large Language Models.

Features • Usage • Configuration • Development • Credits • License

Features

• Connect to any OpenAI compatible API, local or external.
• Switch between APIs and models within conversations.
• Search thread history based on content, tags, models, and usefulness.
• Tag threads to keep common topics readily accessible.
• Mark messages as useful to easily find and for a basic model ranking system.
• Customize colors to your preference.

Usage

Run from binaries

• Download from releases
• Open command prompt in htmx-llmchat directory

./htmx-llmchat serve

Note Unsigned and mostly untested, you may encounter security warnings before being able to run on macOS and Windows.

Run from source

• Install Go
• Install Templ

git clone https://github.com/erikmillergalow/htmx-llmchat.git
cd htmx-llmchat
templ generate
go run main.go serve

• Connect to 127.0.01:8090 in web browser

To clone and run this application, you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

Configuration

• Open the API editor and add an API:
  
• Enter a display name, the OpenAI compatible API /v1 endpoint, and an API key (not always necessary)
• Press update for changes to take effect

API Suggestions

Ollama (local)

• Easy setup, easy to download and manage models.
• Download
• Run Ollama, download models listed here
• HTMXLLMChat Config:
  • URL: http://localhost:11434/v1
  • API Key: ollama

Local AI (local)

• Quickstart
• HTMXLLMChat Config:
  • URL: http://0.0.0.0:8080/v1
  • No API key needed

llama-cpp-python (local)

• Option to run in OpenAI compatible server mode
• Create config file to enable multi-model support
• python3 -m llama_cpp.server --config_file <config_file>
• HTMXLLMChat Config:
  • URL: http://0.0.0.0:8080/v1
  • No API key needed

Groq (external, free tier available)

• Offers llama, gemma, and mistral on free tier, fast responses.
• Create account
• Generate API key
• HTMXLLMChat Config:
  • URL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  • Paste API key generated in web console

OpenAI (external, paid)

• Pay as you go instead of flat ChatGPT Plus rate, access to wider range of models.
• Create account
• Generate API key
• HTMXLLMChat Config:
  • URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
  • Paste API key generated in web console

Note Many other options available, just make sure that they support /v1/chat/completions streaming and /v1/models to list model options.

Note Total and 'useful' chats tracked over time per model and can be viewed in the config menu:

Development

• air can be installed for live reloading
• .air.toml included in repo

// run for development

air

// build binaries

make all

• Tauri can be used to package everything as a standalone desktop app (no browser needed)

// development mode

npm run tauri dev

// create release bundle
// src-tauri/tauri.conf.json beforeBuildCommand is configured for Github Actions, 
// needs to be modified for local builds

npm run tauri build

• Runs on macOS successfully but ran into this issue while creating release bundle for Linux/Windows. Need to determine if the paths API or BaseDirectory can be used to provide the Pocketbase sidecar access to a non read-only filesystem.

Credits

This software uses the following open source packages:

• sashabaranov/go-openai
• Pocketbase
• Templ
• HTMX
• Air
• Tauri - (attempted to package as all-in-one program, incomplete)

License

MIT