# botui/botui

🤖 A JavaScript framework for building conversational UIs

Repository: https://github.com/botui/botui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/botui
Homepage: https://botui.org
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: botui, chat, bot, conversational-ui, javascript, react, typescript
Last push: 2025-08-03T18:12:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 39/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 35, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3352, "days_push": 395, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2905, forks 368 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:29.032375+00:00)

## What it is
BotUI is a JavaScript/TypeScript framework for building conversational (chatbot-style) user interfaces in the browser. It provides a core library for managing bot messages and user actions, plus a React package with built-in input, select, and button-based action components.

## Use cases
- build a chatbot interface in react
- create conversational ui for a website
- add chat widget with input and select actions
- build guided form-like chat flows
- render bot conversation messages in a web app
- create interactive bot onboarding wizard

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, framework-agnostic core with React bindings for chat-style UIs
- you need scripted conversational flows with messages, waits, and user actions
- you want full control over bot logic without a backend chatbot platform

## When to avoid
- you need NLP or LLM-powered conversation handling - BotUI only renders UI, it does not understand language
- you need a full chat backend with channels like Slack or WhatsApp
- you are building a non-JavaScript application

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: frontend-framework, ui-components, chat-interface, state-management
- domain: web-development, frontend, chatbots, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: conversational-ui, chatbot-ui, chat-widgets, bot-framework, react-components, typescript, javascript, nodejs, web, react

## Member repositories
- botui/botui (main) score 39

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:29.032375+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:34:30.462670+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/botui/botui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:29.032375+00:00, sha 5a30226140b8)
  - homepage: https://botui.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.406113+00:00, sha 440bffcb1bed)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.415144+00:00, sha dcd392787362)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/install (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.417329+00:00, sha cee49c2cf49c)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/gotchas (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.419026+00:00, sha b9c106072947)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/concepts (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.421603+00:00, sha 8c0c69747aad)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/core (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.423801+00:00, sha 7a0591ff982a)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/core/reference (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.425903+00:00, sha 77906a43ee11)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/react (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.427706+00:00, sha 4def8672b120)
  - site_page: https://botui.org/docs/react/actions (fetched 2026-08-29T09:50:28.429332+00:00, sha fd79e4a5c683)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.