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Inside AutoBot's Frontend: A Developer Walkthrough

DEV Community·Mārtiņš Veiss·6 months ago
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AutoBot is the open-source, self-hosted AI automation platform where your data never leaves your server.

GitHub: mrveiss/AutoBot-AI

What you see when you open AutoBot

AutoBot's chat interface greets you with a familiar two-pane layout: a conversation sidebar on the left and an active chat panel on the right. Behind that simplicity lives a rich UI built from about 40 focused Vue single-file components.

Chat UI

The core chat flow is:

ChatView.vue └── ChatInterface.vue ├── ChatSidebar.vue ← conversation list + search ├── ChatHeader.vue ← model selector, settings toggle ├── ChatMessages.vue ← scrolling message feed │ └── MessageItem.vue ← per-message bubble + citations ├── ChatInput.vue ← textarea, attachments, send button ├── ChatTabs.vue ← switch between Chat / Browser / Docs └── CitationsDisplay.vue ← inline source links from RAG

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The ChatTabs.vue component is the pivot point: it lets you jump between a raw conversation, an embedded browser session (for web…

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