Building the largest Notifications Library in the world using ChatGPT, React, and NodeJS šŸ¤Æ

Nevo David - Feb 13 '23 - - Dev Community

TLDR;

I am going to show you how to create a notification library like on this website:
https://notifications.directory

I will show you how to create thousands of notifications with ChatGPT and render it with React.

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Things you need to know

At the moment, he ChatGPT API isn't available.
The latest model from OpenAI is "text-davinci-003".
If you're okay with using an older model, go ahead and give it a try!

But keep in mind that it's not as advanced as the current ChatGPT model "text-davinci-002-render". In this tutorial, I'm going to show you a solution that was created by someone in the open-source community.

It's a good option for now, but please keep in mind that it might not always be available. OpenAI hasn't released its ChatGPT API yet, so this is just a temporary solution, this solution can't be used for commercial purposes.

Meme

What data do we need?

I will teach you how to do the same things we do in The notification generator project, simplified.

We will create three hierarchies.

  • Categories Website types like
    • SaaS
    • E-commerce
    • Online marketplace
    • Travel
    • Etc..
  • Notifications Types
    • SaaS: "Payment is due"
    • E-commerce: "Product out of stock", etc...
  • Notifications
    • ā€œHi NAME, your payment is due for DATEā€
    • ā€œHi NAME, product PRODUCT_NAME is out of stock.ā€

To create each hierarchy, we must have the data of the previous hierarchy.

While in Novu, we store everything inside MongoDB here we will do everything with a simple array.

Novu - the first open-source notification infrastructure

Just a quick background about us. Novu is the first open-source notification infrastructure. We basically help to manage all the product notifications. It can be In-App (the bell icon like you have in Facebook), Emails, SMSs and so on.

Novu

I would be super happy if you could give us a star! And let me also know in the comments ā¤ļø
https://github.com/novuhq/novu

Register to ChatGPT

Go over to https://platform.openai.com/signup

Register to OpenAI, head over to this endpoint: https://chat.openai.com/api/auth/session,

and grab the accessToken from the JSON.

Access Token

Setting up the project

We will start by creating the project and create our main file.

mkdir backend
cd backend
npm init
touch index.js
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Letā€™s install our chatgpt library.

npm install @waylaidwanderer/chatgpt-api --save
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This library uses Esm and not CommonJS. Therefore, it might be problematic for you if you try to implement it with NestJS - if you need help, let me know in the comments.

I will not separate the code into multiple files, as I want to keep it simple for the sake of this tutorial. Open index.js, and let's start writing.

Let's initiate our ChatGPT. As you can see, the library is usingĀ "chatgpt.hato.ai*",Ā a solution one of the community members found to use ChatGPT and was kind enough to deploy it on his server. While using this, your ChatGPT account will be exposed to an external resource, so please make sure you don't add any credit card information and that you are using the free ChatGPT version.
**Please be advised that the API is limited to 10 requests per second.*

import { ChatGPTClient } from '@waylaidwanderer/chatgpt-api'

const api = new ChatGPTClient('YOUR ACCESS TOKEN FROM THE PREVIOUS STEP', {
  reverseProxyUrl: 'https://chatgpt.hato.ai/completions',
    modelOptions: {
      model: 'text-davinci-002-render',
  },
});
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Letā€™s create our database šŸ¤£

const categories = []
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Final result of ā€œcategoriesā€ will look like this

[
  {
    "category": "SaaS",
    "notificationTypes": [
      {
        "name": "Payment is due",
        "notifications": [
          "Hi {{name}}, your payment is due for. {{date}}"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]
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Your code should look like this now:

import { ChatGPTClient } from '@waylaidwanderer/chatgpt-api'

const api = new ChatGPTClient('YOUR ACCESS TOKEN FROM THE PREVIOUS STEP', {
  reverseProxyUrl: 'https://chatgpt.hato.ai/completions',
    modelOptions: {
      model: 'text-davinci-002-render',
  },
});

const notifications = [];
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Letā€™s write the code that will generate all the categories.

We want the prompt and the result to look like this:

Chat1

The thing is that everything will come to us as a plain text.
We need a function that will create an array from the list.
I have created a quick one.
If you have something more efficient, let me know in the comments:

const extractNumberedList = (text) => {
    return text.split("\n").reduce((all, current) => {
        const values = current.match(/\d+\.(.*)/);
        if (values?.length > 1) {
            return [...all, values[1].trim()];
        }

        return all;
    }, []);
}
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Now the fun part.
We need all the possible categories, then run it through our function and map it to our database:

const res = await api.sendMessage('Can you list 50 types of websites in the world send in-app notifications? just the category');
categories.push(...extractNumberedList(res.response).map(p => ({category: p, notificationTypes: []})));
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Now we will iterate over the categories and start adding content to them. I am not going to use functional programming here for the first part.
I will use the ā€œfor loopā€ as itā€™s easier with async / await:

for (const category of categories) {

}
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Letā€™s start to create our notification types:

notification type

for (const category of categories) {
    const notificationTypesRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have a website of type ${category}, What kind of notifications should I sent to my users? can you just write the type without context? give me 20`);
  const notificationTypes = extractNumberedList(res.response).map(p => ({name: p, notifications: []}));
}
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And now, letā€™s add our notifications:

notifications

for (const category of categories) {
  // get all the notifications type
    const notificationTypesRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have a website of type ${category}, What kind of notifications should I sent to my users? can you just write the type without context? give me 20`);
  // parse all the notification type and map them
  const notificationTypes = extractNumberedList(notificationTypesRes.response).map(p => ({name: p, notifications: []}));
  // get all the notifications for the notification type
  const notifications = await Promise.all(notificationTypes.map(async p => {
        const notificationRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have built a system about "${category}" and I need to create in-app notifications about "${notificationType}", can you maybe write me a 20 of those? just the notification without the intro, use lower-case double curly braces with no spaces and underscores for the variables, and avoid using quotation when writing the notifications`);
        return {
            ...p,
            notifications: extractNumberedList(notificationRes.response)
        }
    }));
  // push it to the main array
    notificationTypes.notifications.push(...notifications);
}
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The final code will be looking like this:

import { ChatGPTClient } from '@waylaidwanderer/chatgpt-api'

const api = new ChatGPTClient('YOUR ACCESS TOKEN FROM THE PREVIOUS STEP', {
  reverseProxyUrl: 'https://chatgpt.hato.ai/completions',
    modelOptions: {
      model: 'text-davinci-002-render',
  },
});

const categories = [];

const extractNumberedList = (text) => {
    return text.split("\n").reduce((all, current) => {
        const values = current.match(/\d+\.(.*)/);
        if (values?.length > 1) {
            return [...all, values[1].trim()];
        }

        return all;
    }, []);
}

const res = await api.sendMessage('Can you list 50 types of websites in the world send in-app notifications? just the category');
categories.push(...extractNumberedList(res.response).map(p => ({category: p, notificationTypes: []})));

for (const category of categories) {
  // get all the notifications type
    const notificationTypesRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have a website of type ${category}, What kind of notifications should I sent to my users? can you just write the type without context? give me 20`);
  // parse all the notification type and map them
  const notificationTypes = extractNumberedList(notificationTypesRes.response).map(p => ({name: p, notifications: []}));
  // get all the notifications for the notification type
  const notifications = await Promise.all(notificationTypes.map(async p => {
        const notificationRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have built a system about "${category}" and I need to create in-app notifications about "${notificationType}", can you maybe write me a 20 of those? just the notification without the intro, use lower-case double curly braces with no spaces and underscores for the variables, and avoid using quotation when writing the notifications`);
        return {
            ...p,
            notifications: extractNumberedList(notificationRes.response)
        }
    }));
  // push it to the main array
    notificationTypes.notifications.push(...notifications);
}
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It can run in the background forever šŸ„³

We can quickly move it to a separate task / cron / queue, but we will not do it here.

While this thing is running in the background, letā€™s add here the API that our frontend can use

Letā€™s go back to our command line and write:

npm install express --save
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We will do the simplest thing and just serve our categories variable.

Feel free to take it to the next level with an actual database:


import express from 'express';
const app = express()
const port = 3000

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  return categories;
})

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`)
})
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And the complete code is as follows:


import { ChatGPTClient } from '@waylaidwanderer/chatgpt-api';
import express from 'express';

const categories = [];
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

const api = new ChatGPTClient('YOUR ACCESS TOKEN FROM THE PREVIOUS STEP', {
  reverseProxyUrl: 'https://chatgpt.hato.ai/completions',
    modelOptions: {
      model: 'text-davinci-002-render',
  },
});

const extractNumberedList = (text) => {
    return text.split("\n").reduce((all, current) => {
        const values = current.match(/\d+\.(.*)/);
        if (values?.length > 1) {
            return [...all, values[1].trim()];
        }

        return all;
    }, []);
}

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  return categories;
});

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`)
});

const res = await api.sendMessage('Can you list 50 types of websites in the world send in-app notifications? just the category');
categories.push(...extractNumberedList(res.response).map(p => ({category: p, notificationTypes: []})));

for (const category of categories) {
  // get all the notifications type
    const notificationTypesRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have a website of type ${category}, What kind of notifications should I sent to my users? can you just write the type without context? give me 20`);
  // parse all the notification type and map them
  const notificationTypes = extractNumberedList(notificationTypesRes.response).map(p => ({name: p, notifications: []}));
  // get all the notifications for the notification type
  const notifications = await Promise.all(notificationTypes.map(async p => {
        const notificationRes = await api.sendMessage(`I have built a system about "${category}" and I need to create in-app notifications about "${notificationType}", can you maybe write me a 20 of those? just the notification without the intro, use lower-case double curly braces with no spaces and underscores for the variables, and avoid using quotation when writing the notifications`);
        return {
            ...p,
            notifications: extractNumberedList(notificationRes.response)
        }
    }));
  // push it to the main array
    notificationTypes.notifications.push(...notifications);
}
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NODE.JS āœ…

Now letā€™s move over to react to display all of our categories.

I will do the simplest thing of aggregating everything inside of a <ul>

Letā€™s right some bash commands:

cd ..
npx create-react-app frontend
cd frontend
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I will be using axios to get all the results from the database, feel free to use fetch / react-query etcā€¦

npm install axios
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Letā€™s open our main component at ā€œsrc/App.jsā€ and add some imports

import {useState, useCallback, useEffect} from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';
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Letā€™s open our main component at ā€œsrc/App.jsā€ and add a new state that will contain all of our database from the server:

const [categories, setCategories] = useState([]);
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And now, we will write the function that will get all the information from the server

const serverInformation = useCallback(async () => {
    const {data} = await axios.get('http://localhost:3000');
    setCategories(data);
}, []);
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Add it to our useEffect, that will run as soon as the component is loaded

useEffect(() => {
    serverInformation();
}, []);
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And now, we will render everything on the screen

<ul>
    {categories.map(cat => (
        <li>
            {cat.category}
            <ul>
                {cat.notificationTypes.map(notificationType => (
                    <li>
                        {notificationType.name}
                        <ul>
                            {notificationType.notifications.map(notification => (
                                <li>
                                    {notification}
                                <li>
                            )}
                        </ul>
                    <li>
                )}
            </ul>
        <li>
    )}
</ul>
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And thatā€™s it! We have rendered the entire list!!!

The full code of App.js would look like this:

import {useState, useCallback, useEffect} from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';

function App() {
    const [categories, setCategories] = useState([]);

    useEffect(() => {
        serverInformation();
    }, []);

    const serverInformation = useCallback(async () => {
        const {data} = await axios.get('http://localhost:3000');
        setCategories(data);
    }, []);

    return (
        <ul>
            {categories.map(cat => (
                <li>
                    {cat.category}
                    <ul>
                        {cat.notificationTypes.map(notificationType => (
                            <li>
                                {notificationType.name}
                                <ul>
                                    {notificationType.notifications.map(notification => (
                                        <li>
                                            {notification}
                                        <li>
                                    )}
                                </ul>
                            <li>
                        )}
                    </ul>
                <li>
            )}
        </ul>
    );
}
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Of course, this is the short version of the frontend.

You can find the complete frontend code (with the amazing design) here:
https://github.com/novuhq/notification-directory-react

screenshot

I hope you have learned something. Until next time šŸ˜Ž

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If you feel like this article helped you, I would be super happy if you could give us a star! And let me also know in the comments ā¤ļø

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