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🤖 BharadwajAI Chat

BharadwajAI Chat is a full-stack AI chatbot built using React, Django, SQLite, and Google Gemini API 3.0.
It provides real-time intelligent conversations with a clean UI and secure backend architecture.

🧠 Chatbot or Agent?

This project is currently an AI Chatbot.

  • Accepts user input
  • Sends it to Gemini API
  • Returns AI-generated responses

It does not yet perform autonomous actions or tool usage.
With memory and tool integrations, it can be upgraded into an AI Agent.

🚀 Features

  • 💬 Real-time AI chat using Gemini API 3.0
  • ⚛️ Modern React frontend
  • 🐍 Django REST backend
  • 🗄️ SQLite lightweight database
  • 🔐 Secure environment-based API keys
  • 🌐 Clean frontend-backend separation

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend: React, JavaScript, CSS
Backend: Django, Django REST Framework, python-dotenv
AI: Google Gemini API 3.0
Database: SQLite

⚙️ Backend Setup (Django)

cd backend
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

⚛️ Frontend Setup (React)

cd frontend
npm install
npm start

🌐 Access the App

Frontend: http://localhost:3000
Backend: http://localhost:8000

🔄 Application Flow

  1. User sends a message from the UI
  2. Request reaches Django REST API
  3. Backend calls Gemini API securely
  4. Gemini generates the response
  5. Response is displayed in the chat UI

🔒 Security

  • API keys stored in environment variables
  • .env ignored via .gitignore
  • GitHub Secret Scanning supported
  • No secrets committed

🚧 Future Enhancements

  • Conversation memory
  • Tool calling support
  • Authentication
  • Streaming responses
  • Cloud deployment
  • Upgrade to AI Agent

👨‍💻 Author

Bharadwaj (Manu)
GitHub: https://github.com/Manu577228
YouTube: Code with Bharadwaj

⭐ Support

If you like this project, give it a ⭐ on GitHub!