seniman-chatgpt

A fast, light ChatGPT UI built with Seniman. Loads with only 3KB of JS upfront, and uses WebSockets to stream the interface on-the-fly.

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Set up the app

1. Clone this repository
2. Install the dependencies

npm install

3. Run the build script

npm run build

4. Start the server (passing your OpenAI API key as an environment variable)

OPENAI_API_KEY=<...> npm start

Get your OpenAI API key here.

5. Open the app at http://localhost:3020

Network Performance

Compared to OpenAI's native chat.openai.com's frontend:

OpenAI

• Downloads 600KB of JS upfront
• ~160KB of data per message (short code block + 5 sentence paragraph)

Seniman

• Downloads 3KB of JS upfront & 3KB of websocket messages to set up UI
• ~5KB of WS data per message of same size