CurreChat

LLM chat built for University of Helsinki staff and students, for education and research.

Some key features include:

• Access based on enrolments and staff role
• Custom system prompts managed by teachers
• Retrieval-augmented generation: teachers can bring their own source material for a course

Development

• Install npm, docker and docker compose
• Clone the repository
• Copy .env.template as .env file and fill in the required values
• Run npm i and npm start to setup and start the development environment

Azure setup

Create an AI foundry resource (or something) and create deployment for the models you want to use (gpt4.1 for example).

Then populate .env with the following:

AZURE_RESOURCE=<name-of-the-resource-you-created>
AZURE_API_KEY=<asd>
GPT_41=<name-of-the-deployment-you-created>

Developers: things to know

Debugging in production

In browser console, run

toggleDevtools()

Troubleshooting

Getting Error: Cannot find module @rollup/rollup-linux-arm64-musl on MacOS? This is likely because you ran npm i locally. Try removing package-lock.json locally and running

docker compose build

If then you're getting concurrently not found, prepend the npm run dev script with npm i and run once with that.

Trivia

The terms course and chatInstance refer to the same thing in the codebase. However, only chatInstance is correct, always prefer it.