🤖React GPT Chatbot Starter Kit – CodeLoot

A plug-and-play React app that connects to OpenAI's GPT API with custom personas, history, and UI.

Kickstart your next AI chatbot project with this clean and simple React template. No backend required — just add your OpenAI API key and start chatting!

🤖 Features

• GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 integration

• Clean chat UI (user/bot)

• Typing animation

• Easy config via config.js

🧩 Includes:

• Full React project (Vite setup)

• Chat UI (Chatbot.jsx), GPT logic, CSS, config file

• Setup README and License

⚡ Ready to deploy to Vercel or Netlify.

What’s Included

• 🔹 App.jsx: Main entry point, rendering the chatbot interface

• 🔹 Chatbot.jsx: The chat UI component with React state and input/output handling

• 🔹 ChatService.js: Handles the OpenAI GPT-3.5/GPT-4 API call logic

• 🔹 config.js: Plug-and-play config file for your OpenAI API key and model

• 🔹 styles.css: Clean default styling with message bubbles and mobile responsiveness

• 🔹 index.html: Basic HTML entry point for the Vite project

• 🔹 README.md: Installation and deployment guide (local + Vercel)

• 🔹 LICENSE.txt: Royalty-free license with attribution to CodeLoot

How It Works This starter kit is ideal for anyone looking to build an AI chatbot UI using OpenAI’s GPT models. It’s fully React-based, lightweight, and easy to modify.

• Built with Vite for fast setup and builds

• Sends user messages via fetch to OpenAI’s Chat Completion API

• Displays message bubbles (user/bot) with “typing…” effect

• Works great as a support assistant, productivity bot, or creative tool

Just install the dependencies, add your API key in config.js, and you’re ready to go.

Who It’s For

• React developers building AI interfaces

• Startups or solo devs wanting to integrate GPT into their apps

• No-backend chatbot MVPs or prototypes

No backend required. Deployable via Vercel, Netlify, or self-hosted.