Building a Document Question Answering App with Vue.js, Hugging Face, and Strapi

[GeekEdmund]

What is your article idea?

The idea is to write an article that will cover the process of building a document question answering application using Vue.js for the frontend, Hugging Face for document question answering (QA) models, and Strapi for backend management. You'll learn how to set up the project, connect the frontend to Strapi, and ultimately create an application that utilizes AI, powered by Hugging Face models, to analyze documents and provide answers to user queries.

What are the objectives of your article?

I. Introduction

• Capture the reader's interest: Briefly explain document question answering and its potential applications.
• Introduce the project: Highlight the app's functionalities and the technologies used (Vue.js, Hugging Face, Strapi).
• Target audience: Who will benefit from this guide (developers, data scientists, AI enthusiasts).

II. Prerequisites

• List the necessary tools and technologies:
  • Node.js and npm (or yarn)
  • Basic understanding of Vue.js
  • Familiarity with Hugging Face concepts
  • Basic knowledge of Strapi

III. Project Setup

• Create a new Vue.js project.
• Install required dependencies:
  • Vue-router (for potential routing needs)
  • Axios (or similar library for API calls)
  • Hugging Face transformers library (for model integration)

IV. Vue.js Component Structure

• App.vue: Main application component, manages overall structure and state.
• AnswerDisplay.vue: Displays the answer to the user's query.
• services/documentQA.js: Communicates with Strapi backend and processes document data.

V. Document Processing and QA Generation

• Explore pre-trained document QA models available in Hugging Face.
• Integrate a chosen model: Load the model, prepare document data for input.
• Generate answers using the model's inference capabilities.

VI. Strapi Backend Integration

• Set up a Strapi project for data management.
• Define an API endpoint to receive document data from the Vue.js frontend.
• Implement logic within the Strapi endpoint to handle document processing and call the Hugging Face model.

VII. User Interface and Interactivity

• Design the Vue.js UI for document query input, and answer display.
  • Entering and submitting a query
  • Displaying the generated answer

VIII. Conclusion

• Recap the key takeaways and the power of combining these technologies.
• Provide a link to the code repository.

What is your expertise as a developer or writer?

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What type of post is this?

Tutorial

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[GeekEdmund]

Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku!

What do you think about this article idea?

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Hi @GeekEdmund ,

Thanks for your contribution. Your outline is great but a bit shy off of the AI part. Can you please give more details on the AI part?

[GeekEdmund]

Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku ,

The central role of AI in this project is to provide an intelligent question answering capability that can analyze documents and retrieve relevant answers to user queries. This is achieved by leveraging pre-trained AI models from the Hugging Face

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Hi @GeekEdmund ,

Thanks for the clarification. I was expecting you to mention RAG. But let me know if what you mean here is "Build an RAG powered AI chatbot with Vue.js, Hugging Face, and Strapi"?.

[GeekEdmund]

Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku .

My focus is on building an app that ingests, say a research paper on climate change as input documents, scan for questions like 'What are the main causes of global warming according to the paper?', and then returns the precise answer.

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

HI @GeekEdmund,

At the moment we are not interested in this topic.

Please do well to join our Discord community channel (#write-for-the-community) to learn more about the recent updates and developments, https://discord.gg/invite/strapi. 😊

[GeekEdmund]

Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku

I can proceed to implement as you requested "Build an RAG powered AI chatbot with Vue.js, Hugging Face, and Strapi" How about that.