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.
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

NEXT_PUBLIC_INKEEP_API_KEY="INKEEP_API_KEY"

Install the component library

npm install @inkeep/cxkit-react

yarn add @inkeep/cxkit-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 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";
 
const ChatButton = dynamic(
  () => import("@inkeep/cxkit-react").then((mod) => mod.InkeepChatButton),
  {
    ssr: false,
  }
);
 
function InkeepChatButton() {
  //...
 
  const chatButtonProps = {
    baseSettings,
    aiChatSettings,
    searchSettings,
    modalSettings,
  };
 
  return <ChatButton {...chatButtonProps} />;
}
 
export default InkeepChatButton;

import dynamic from "next/dynamic";
import { InkeepChatButtonProps } from "@inkeep/cxkit-react";
 
const ChatButton = dynamic(
  () => import("@inkeep/cxkit-react").then((mod) => mod.InkeepChatButton),
  {
    ssr: false,
  }
);
 
function InkeepChatButton() {
  //...
 
  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.