Add AI Chat to your Next.js app

What is Next.js

Next.js is a React full-stack app development framework. You can use Inkeep's React component library to Add AI Search & Chat functionality to apps or documentation and marketing sites built with Next.js.

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 and URL (optional) for the integration
Click on Create
Click the Example < /> button to get your API key and view suggested settings

Copy and add the apiKey, integrationId and organizationId to your environment variables:

.env

NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_API_KEY="INKEEP_API_KEY"
NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_INTEGRATION_ID="INKEEP_INTEGRATION_ID"
NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_ORGANIZATION_ID="INKEEP_ORGANIZATION_ID"

Install the component library

npm install @inkeep/uikit

bun add @inkeep/uikit

pnpm add @inkeep/uikit

yarn add @inkeep/uikit

Customize your settings

Create a useInkeepSettings.ts file that will contain a hook that will return the configuration for Inkeep component(s).

const useInkeepSettings = () => {
  const baseSettings = {
    apiKey: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_API_KEY!,
    integrationId: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_INTEGRATION_ID!,
    organizationId: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_ORGANIZATION_ID!,
    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
    botAvatarSrcUrl: "/img/logo.svg", // use your own bot avatar
    quickQuestions: [
      "Example question 1?",
      "Example question 2?",
      "Example question 3?",
    ],
  };
 
  return { baseSettings, aiChatSettings, searchSettings, modalSettings };
};
 
export default useInkeepSettings;

import type {
  InkeepAIChatSettings,
  InkeepSearchSettings,
  InkeepBaseSettings,
  InkeepModalSettings,
} from "@inkeep/uikit";
 
type InkeepSharedSettings = {
  baseSettings: InkeepBaseSettings;
  aiChatSettings: InkeepAIChatSettings;
  searchSettings: InkeepSearchSettings;
  modalSettings: InkeepModalSettings;
};
 
const useInkeepSettings = (): InkeepSharedSettings => {
  const baseSettings: InkeepBaseSettings = {
    apiKey: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_API_KEY!,
    integrationId: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_INTEGRATION_ID!,
    organizationId: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_ORGANIZATION_ID!,
    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
    botAvatarSrcUrl: "/img/logo.svg", // use your own bot avatar
    quickQuestions: [
      "Example question 1?",
      "Example question 2?",
      "Example question 3?",
    ],
  };
 
  return { baseSettings, aiChatSettings, searchSettings, modalSettings };
};
 
export default useInkeepSettings;

Make sure to add your Inkeep identifiers to your environment settings.

Define the component

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

Note

For Next.js apps that use App Router, use the "use client" directive at the top of the file to load the widget client side.

import dynamic from 'next/dynamic';
import useInkeepSettings from '@/utils/useInkeepSettings';
 
const ChatButton = dynamic(
  () => import('@inkeep/uikit').then((mod) => mod.InkeepChatButton),
  {
    ssr: false,
  },
);
 
function InkeepChatButton() {
  const {
    baseSettings, aiChatSettings, searchSettings, modalSettings,
  } = useInkeepSettings();
 
  const chatButtonProps = {
    baseSettings,
    aiChatSettings,
    searchSettings,
    modalSettings,
  };
 
  return <ChatButton {...chatButtonProps} />;
}
 
export default InkeepChatButton;

import dynamic from 'next/dynamic';
import { InkeepChatButtonProps } from '@inkeep/uikit';
import useInkeepSettings from '@/utils/useInkeepSettings';
 
const ChatButton = dynamic(
  () => import('@inkeep/uikit').then((mod) => mod.InkeepChatButton),
  {
    ssr: false,
  },
);
 
function InkeepChatButton() {
  const {
    baseSettings, aiChatSettings, searchSettings, modalSettings,
  } = useInkeepSettings();
 
  const chatButtonProps: InkeepChatButtonProps = {
    baseSettings,
    aiChatSettings,
    searchSettings,
    modalSettings,
  };
 
  return <ChatButton {...chatButtonProps} />;
}
 
export default InkeepChatButton;

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