Build Your First JavaScript ChatGPT Plugin

The Chat Plugin system is an exciting new way to extend ChatGPT’s functionality, incorporate your own business data, and add another channel for customers to interact with your business. In this article I will explain what Chat Plugins are, what they can do, and how you can build your own with JavaScript.

This article (or ‘training data’ as OpenAI calls it) provides a quick start guide to building your first ChatGPT plugin and integrating it with the ChatGPT interface.

The official documentation to build plugins is bare, with only Python examples thus far. To help the JavaScript developers among us, we’ve put together a step-by-step tutorial and repository to get you up and running within minutes. Our quick start repository offers a JavaScript equivalent to the To Do list project from the official example, with a few extra bells and whistles to help you get started.

The jury is still out as to whether Chat Plugins will become a life changing Jarvis-like experience or just an expensive Alexa-for-your-browser. Let’s make up our own mind by taking a look at what plugins could offer, and what to look out for, and how to make your own.

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