DEVELOPER.md

🛠️ Developer Documentation

📦 Project Structure

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├── app.py              # Main Chainlit application
├── requirements.txt    # Project dependencies
└── README.md          # User documentation

🔧 Technical Details

The application uses Chainlit (v0.7.700+) to create a simple chat interface. The main functionality is implemented in app.py using the @cl.on_message decorator to handle incoming messages.

Key Components

• @cl.on_message: Decorator that handles incoming messages from the chat interface
• cl.Message: Class for creating and sending messages back to the user
• Async/await pattern for handling message processing

🚀 Running Locally

1. Create a virtual environment (recommended):

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the development server:

chainlit run app.py

🔍 Debugging

• Chainlit provides a built-in debug mode. Run with:

chainlit run app.py --debug

📚 Resources

• Chainlit Documentation
• Chainlit GitHub Repository