Add AI Chat to your Astro app

What is Astro

Astro is an all-in-one web framework for content-driven websites. With Inkeep, you can Add AI Search & Chat to your landing page, app, blog, or documentation site powered by Astro.

Get an API key

Go to the Inkeep Dashboard
Select your project under Projects
Go to the Integrations tab
Click on Create integration
Select Web
Provide a Name.
Specify a URL for where this integration will be used.
For production API keys, leave Enforce referrer URL checked.
Click on Create
Click the Example < /> button to get your API key and view suggested settings

For local or staging API keys, see here.

Copy and add the apiKey to your environment variables:

.env

INKEEP_API_KEY="INKEEP_API_KEY"

Install the component library

npm install @inkeep/cxkit-react

yarn add @inkeep/cxkit-react

Define React components

Install the @astrojs/react package to use React components:

npx astro add react

bun astro add react

pnpm astro add react

yarn astro add react

Customize your settings

Define your Inkeep settings.

const baseSettings = {
  apiKey,
  primaryBrandColor: "#26D6FF", // your brand color, widget color scheme is derived from this
  organizationDisplayName: "Inkeep",
  // ...optional settings
};
 
const modalSettings = {
  // optional settings
};
 
const searchSettings = {
  // optional settings
};
 
const aiChatSettings = {
  // optional settings
  aiAssistantAvatar: "/img/logo.svg", // use your own ai assistant avatar
  exampleQuestions: [
    "Example question 1?",
    "Example question 2?",
    "Example question 3?",
  ],
};

import type {
  InkeepAIChatSettings,
  InkeepSearchSettings,
  InkeepBaseSettings,
  InkeepModalSettings,
} from "@inkeep/cxkit-react";
 
const baseSettings: InkeepBaseSettings = {
  apiKey,
  primaryBrandColor: "#26D6FF", // your brand color, widget color scheme is derived from this
  organizationDisplayName: "Inkeep",
  // ...optional settings
};
 
const modalSettings: InkeepModalSettings = {
  // optional settings
};
 
const searchSettings: InkeepSearchSettings = {
  // optional settings
};
 
const aiChatSettings: InkeepAIChatSettings = {
  // optional settings
  aiAssistantAvatar: "/img/logo.svg", // use your own ai assistant avatar
  exampleQuestions: [
    "Example question 1?",
    "Example question 2?",
    "Example question 3?",
  ],
};

Define the component

Next, create an InkeepChatButton.tsx file for the Chat Button component.

import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
export default function InkeepChatButton() {
  const [ChatButton, setChatButton] = useState(null);
 
  //...
 
  // load the library asynchronously
  useEffect(() => {
    const loadChatButton = async () => {
      try {
        const { InkeepChatButton } = await import("@inkeep/cxkit-react");
        setChatButton(() => InkeepChatButton);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error("Failed to load ChatButton:", error);
      }
    };
 
    loadChatButton();
  }, []);
 
  const chatButtonProps = {
    baseSettings,
    aiChatSettings,
    searchSettings,
    modalSettings,
  };
 
  return ChatButton && <ChatButton {...chatButtonProps} />;
}

import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import type { InkeepChatButtonProps } from "@inkeep/cxkit-react";
 
export default function InkeepChatButton() {
  const [ChatButton, setChatButton] =
    useState<(e: InkeepChatButtonProps) => JSX.Element>();
 
  //...
 
  // load the library asynchronously
  useEffect(() => {
    const loadChatButton = async () => {
      try {
        const { InkeepChatButton } = await import("@inkeep/cxkit-react");
        setChatButton(() => InkeepChatButton);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error("Failed to load ChatButton:", error);
      }
    };
 
    loadChatButton();
  }, []);
 
  const chatButtonProps: InkeepChatButtonProps = {
    baseSettings,
    aiChatSettings,
    searchSettings,
    modalSettings,
  };
 
  return ChatButton && <ChatButton {...chatButtonProps} />;
}

Use the component

Now use the InkeepChatButton.tsx component in your Astro based website.

// ...
<InkeepChatButton client:load />
// ...

Note

Use the client:load directive to load and hydrate the InkeepChatButton.tsx component immediately on page load.

For a full list of customizations, check out the Chat Button documentation.