Скачать или смотреть Interview: The Ethora Chat Component NPM and what this means for building your own AI agent app

This is an interview call with Roman Leschuh, lead frontend software engineer at Ethora.

Roman explains what Ethora Chat Component is, as a React-based NPM package, and also together with Taras Filatov they discuss multiple aspects of component-based app development and what this means for building your own AI agent app.

SYNOPSIS:

WHAT IT IS AND WHY
Ethora NPM Chat Component - can you tell a little bit more about what it is?
Having an NPM package - how is it different from publishing this code on github?

STRUCTURE / ARCHITECTURE
What is the current structure of Ethora NPM Chat Component and what can be the possible future structure?
Nested NPM packages?

FRAMEWORKS AND VARIANTS
Let’s talk a bit about what frameworks selection means - Vanilla, React etc.
Same for variant - Typescript, Javascript, SWC.
What does this mean and which ones we support better, which ones it makes sense to support.

USE CASES
Embed chat widget into a legacy software (web portal - useful for enterprise)
Build a new web app for group chat or AI agent capabilities
Build a new iOS/Android app
integrate into a mobile app

Wordpress?
How about a Wordpress website? Can this be used to add chat to a wordpress website?

AI ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT
Would v0, Vercel or Loveable be useful in building your own chat app or agent app, with or without Ethora NPM package?
Will they be able to handle backend, the networking layer, API and XMPP chat protocol?
Can Ethora NPM be used in AI assisted development?

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR BUILDING YOUR OWN AI CHAT APPS
How can anybody build their own AI Agent app.
If you want to release a chat AI agent as your own app, under your own name and branding, with custom features and for your own userbase, you still need to do all this app development heavy-lifting. You can’t just take ChatGPT and release it as your own app.
So this is exciting time for everyone who builds their own AI agent apps - the heavy-lifting is done for you by the Ethora Chat component NPM package!