Build a JavaScript AI App with React and the OpenAI API

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Build a JavaScript AI App with React and the OpenAI API. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

In this course, learn how to integrate the OpenAI API into a JavaScript-based web app. Join instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen as he takes a React-based weather app, adds a heavy dose of AI, and creates an interactive experience that knows what location you want weather information from, explains the weather data in simple language, and even suggests what to wear. Through this project-based course, Morten teaches you about API integration, user-based authentication, storing user tokens in a ServiceWorker, task-based API configuration, and sending and receiving requests to the API.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Installing

1. To use these exercise files, you must have the following installed:
   • Node.js
2. Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.
3. In terminal, run npm install to install all dependencies.
4. In terminal, run npm run dev to start the Vite dev server.
5. In terminal, type o to open the site in your browser.
6. In terminal, type q to stop the Vite dev server.

Instructor

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Developer and Senior Staff Instructor

Check out my other courses on LinkedIn Learning.

See the readme file in the main branch for updated instructions and information.