AI Chat Bestie

AI Chat Bestie is an unofficial ChatGPT app.

By connecting directly to the API it can provide faster responses, a more customizable UI, and many more features and integrations.

Hosted version available at https://aichatbestie.com.

Features

• Faster response times
• Searchable chat history
• Customizable system message
• Prompt library
• Regenerate messages
• Bring your own key
• Save/export/import chat to/from DB

Self-hosting

The app uses sveltekit and can run directly in the terminal with npm run dev. nhost is only needed for account-related features and the app will run just fine without it.

Terminals

1. Sveltekit - npm run dev
2. nhost - nhost dev
3. stripe - stripe listen --forward-to http://localhost:3000/webhooks/completed-checkout

Development scripts

• npm run dev runs sveltekit server

• nhost dev runs nhost

• npm run check syncs .env variables

-- Stripe checkout --

stripe login stripe listen --forward-to http://localhost:3000/webhooks/completed-checkout stripe trigger checkout.session.completed

-- ngrok (hasura webhooks) --

npx ngrok http --subdomain=ktruong008 3000

-- email --

Supplied by Mailhog, usually at localhost:8025

Production branches

• nhost-production - nhost/hasura/migrations/metadata

Deployment checklist

• Update environment variables (netlify)
• Deploy nhost branch (if needed)
• Push production branch netlify-production

nhost quirks/undocumented

• nhost client seems to keep track of authenticated state of users in some session
• nhost client automatically does stuff with auth/refresh tokens using the admin role
• nhost client automatically attaches user_vars to client graphql requests:
• http://localhost:1337/v1/functions/time (example for accessing nhost functions)
• use isAuthenticatedAsync over isAuthenticated and call getSession AFTER the authentication check or else the session sometimes won't be available

// For authenticated user
user_vars: {
  "x-hasura-role":"user",
  "x-hasura-user-isanonymous":"false",
  "x-hasura-user-id":"cef5e0e7-c7eb-4099-b891-1ff5055e1c55"
}

// For public user
user_vars: {"x-hasura-role":"public"}

• nhost client automatically sends access token as request header in client graphql requests

// If the user is signed in, the user's access token is attached in the Authorization header.

nhost Auth

• Only way to reliably gain isAuthenticated status is via isAuthenticatedAsync (other methods fail due to race/timing conditions)
• isAuthenticatedAsync clogs shit up for 15 seconds if nhost server is down, halting everything else in the process.
• App MUST go on with or without hasura, hasura is only enhancement, not a requirement.
• therefore use hacky onAuthStateChanged and isAuthenticated (sync) to get around this, along with svelte stores to fetch and update user data
• this also means invalidateAll won't affect db state.

Stripe checkout and friends

Overview

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview

Stripe checkout does not behave like Shopify app subscriptions. Customers/accounts can possess many subscriptions and new subscriptions do not cancel existing subscriptions. On one hand, this gives more feature flexibility such as customer portals and more flexible payment arrangements, customized proration/cancellation policies, and more. But on the other hand, it's a lot more work.

Major subscription lifecycle events can be found here:

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#subscription-events

checkout.session.completed customer.subscription.created customer.subscription.deleted invoice.created invoice.paid invoice.payment_failed

Test cards

4242424242424242 - Successful payment 4000000000009995 - Failed payment 4000002500003155 - Requires authentication

License

AI Chat Bestie is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.