How to add an AI chatbot to React
On React, a chat widget is installed through public/index.html, before the closing </body> tag. Applies on your next build and deploy. None.
Where it goes
public/index.html, before the closing </body> tag
Availability: None.
Adding the chatbot to React
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Open public/index.html in your project.
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Paste the snippet immediately before the closing </body> tag.
- 3
Rebuild and deploy.
- 4
Applies on your next build and deploy.
The snippet you paste
<script src="https://rubyrep.com/rubyrep.js" data-rubyrep="rr_your_public_key" defer></script>Your own key replaces rr_your_public_key — you get it after training RubyRep on your site.
Worth knowing on React
Putting the script in index.html rather than a component keeps it outside React's render cycle, which is what you want.
If you must load it from a component, guard against double-injection in React 18 strict mode, which mounts effects twice in development.
React questions
- Where does the code go on React?
- public/index.html, before the closing </body> tag. Applies on your next build and deploy.
- Do I need a paid React plan?
- None.
- Will a React update remove it?
- Putting the script in index.html rather than a component keeps it outside React's render cycle, which is what you want.
- Does it slow React down?
- No measurable effect. The snippet is deferred, so it loads after your page has rendered, and the chat interface itself is only fetched when a visitor opens it.
Related
term
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The term covers two very different things. Older chatbots follow scripts and break the moment a visitor phrases something unexpectedly. Modern ones retrieve from a business's own content and generate an answer, which handles arbitrary phrasing.
term
What is AI customer service?
AI customer service means answering customer questions with a language model rather than a person. The useful implementations are grounded in a specific business's own content; the poor ones let a general model improvise, which produces confident answers that are wrong.
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