How to make my own frontend using this backend? How do I extract and use the API calls?

[Aviral1611]

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[pamelafox]

If you wanted to make an alternative frontend, you would need to make sure that you processed the responses from /chat and /ask endpoints. That should be doable, and there's actually another repo that's writing a frontend in Web Components that works with our backend.

Do you have specific questions about a difficulty you anticipate? I'm not quite sure what sort of guide you're looking for.

[AmitBhatnagar24]

...so if we have a botframework bot, would we hit /chat instead of the usual /api/messages endpoint?

[pamelafox]

I don't know what bot framework expects, is it looking for a particular format?

Here's a thread where @garrytrinder made several teams bots, you might find those helpful:
#451

[Aviral1611]

Could you kindly mention the Repo that's writing in web Components which you mentioned above?
Thanks

[pamelafox]

Sure, here you go:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-javascript

And here's their FAQ about using this backend with their frontend:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-javascript#using-a-different-backend

(Or you can just use their backend too, if you're comfortable with NodeJS backends)

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[pamelafox]

To summarize the discussion from earlier:
You can build a custom UI by calling the backend’s POST /chat or /ask endpoints and handling the JSON responses. A working example frontend you can point at this backend is here: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-javascript (see its FAQ for using a different backend). Also see docs/customization.md for Chat/Ask approaches, and #451 for Bot Framework/Teams discussion.

Since this has been inactive for a while and the guidance above covers the original ask, I’m going to close this. If you still need help, please open a new issue with the request payloads you’re sending, response snippets, and any errors, and I’ll take a look.