grabdy

SaaS that lets businesses upload data (PDF, CSV, DOCX, TXT) and retrieve it contextually via REST API and chatbot.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• Yarn 4.x (via corepack: corepack enable && corepack prepare yarn@4.6.0 --activate)
• PostgreSQL 15+ with pgvector extension
• Redis 7+
• poppler (provides pdftotext and pdfinfo for PDF text extraction)

Installing poppler

macOS:

brew install poppler

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install -y poppler-utils

Docker: Already included in the API Dockerfile.

Setup

yarn install

Copy .env.example to .env in apps/api and fill in the values.

Development

# API
cd apps/api && yarn dev

# Web
cd apps/web && yarn dev

Type Checking

cd apps/api && npx tsc --noEmit
cd apps/web && npx tsc --noEmit