# botfront/rasa-webchat

A feature-rich chat widget for Rasa and Botfront

Repository: https://github.com/botfront/rasa-webchat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rasa-webchat
Homepage: https://botfront.io/rasa
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: chatbots, rasa-core, chat, webchat, chat-widget, chat-application
Last push: 2026-02-13T16:45:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 53/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 67, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3092, "days_push": 201, "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 1018, forks 508 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.832679+00:00)

## What it is
A feature-rich chat widget for embedding Rasa or Botfront virtual assistants on any website, usable via a script tag or as a React component. It supports quick replies, images, carousels, markdown, persistent sessions, and typing indicators over socket.io.

## Use cases
- embed a Rasa chatbot on a website
- add a chat widget to a React app
- deploy a Botfront assistant as a webchat
- show quick replies and carousels in a chatbot UI
- connect a website chat widget to Rasa Core via socket.io

## When to avoid
- your bot is not built with Rasa or Botfront
- you need a fully custom chat UI design
- you use a Rasa version incompatible with the widget version

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: chat-interface, websocket, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: chatbots, web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: rasa, chat-widget, react-component, botfront, webchat, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- botfront/rasa-webchat (main) score 53

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.832679+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 2026-08-30T07:09:27.868476+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/botfront/rasa-webchat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.832679+00:00, sha bbcb4d53ad23)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/rasa-webchat (fetched 2026-08-29T13:10:27.967011+00:00, sha 158be74113d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.