In this lecture, we are going to update our sidebar by creating a new chat sidebar component and rendering a logout button. To do this, we will create a new directory called ‘components’ in the root directory of our project and add a new component called ‘ChatSidebar’. We will also update our ‘chat’ and ‘chat ID’ pages to render the chat sidebar component instead of a div.
Next, we will implement a simple form in our footer to capture user input and send it to the OpenAI API. We will add a text area and a button within a form tag. The text area will have a placeholder of ‘Send a message’ and will be styled with a fixed height, rounded corners, and a gray background. The button will be styled using the ‘BTN’ class, which applies the same styles as the login and sign up buttons.
To capture the user’s input, we will use React state. We will create a state variable called ‘messageText’ and update it whenever the text area value changes. We will also add an onSubmit handler to the form to handle the form submission. In the onSubmit handler, we will prevent the default form submission behavior and log the value of ‘messageText’ to the console.
In the next lecture, we will continue with implementing the OpenAI API calls and streaming the response. But before that, we will need to set up an OpenAI account. Stay tuned!
