AI Programming for JavaScript Developers

1h 34mAdvanced2024-04-04

Authors

Eve Porcello

Software Developer and Instructor

Course details

AI is becoming more and more of a requirement for JavaScript development projects. You can use AI technologies for UI enhancements, as well as built upon several AIs with JavaScript. As we move toward a world where more AI programming is normalized, the JavaScript ecosystem contains tools to make your work as a developer easier. In this course, software developer and instructor Eve Porcello surveys the options available and shows you how to build chat and text analysis programs that use JavaScript libraries in Node.js.

After taking the course, you will be able to analyze text and build chat applications that have a structured output. You will also learn how to save results to databases that are familiar to many JavaScript developers.

Skills covered

Ecma InternationalJavaScriptAdvancedArtificial Intelligence FoundationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Programming LanguagesSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn to build AI-enhanced applications
02 - Understanding AI in the JavaScript ecosystem
03 - What you should know

1. Creating the App

04 - Installing OpenAI with npm
05 - Generating an API key
06 - Choosing and setting a language model

2. Working with Prompts

07 - Writing functions
08 - Working with streams
09 - Creating a prompt
10 - Refactoring functions with code prompts
11 - Setting templates
12 - Challenge - Customizing questions
13 - Solution - Customizing questions

3. Incorporating APIs

14 - Accepting user input with readline
15 - Creating image descriptions based on a URL
16 - Transcribing audio files with OpenAI
17 - Building a Node app to transcribe audio
18 - Using DALL-E 3 for image generation

4. Customizing the Assistants API

19 - Using the Assistants API playground
20 - Creating an assistant in a Node application
21 - Adding messages to threads
22 - Running and parsing the assistant response

5. Utilizing LangChain Features

23 - Setting up a LangChain project
24 - Creating a chat template
25 - Using runnable sequences
26 - Combining multiple chains

Conclusion

27 - Next steps