Frontend

LaTeX Chatbot Frontend

A modern, responsive desktop application for LaTeX editing, built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript.

Features

• Split View Editor: Real-time preview of LaTeX code side-by-side with the compiled PDF.
• AI Integration: Chat interface for requesting edits, explanations, and code generation.
• Project Structure: Visual file explorer for managing LaTeX projects.
• Settings: Configure LLM providers and editor preferences.

Architecture

This frontend is a React application served by Tauri. It communicates with the backend editor-cli sidecar process for heavy lifting (compilation, AI inference).

• Tauri: Provides the native window, menu system, and sidecar management.
• React: UI components and state management.
• Sonner: Toast notifications for user feedback.

graph LR
    subgraph Frontend [Tauri App]
        UI[React UI] <--> TauriCore[Tauri Rust Core]
    end
    
    subgraph Backend [Sidecar Process]
        TauriCore --"HTTP/IPC"--> Py[Python API Server]
    end
    
    Py --> FS[(File System)]
    Py --> AI((AI Model))

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Development

Prerequisites: Node.js 20+, Rust (stable).

Running Locally

# From project root
make gui

Or manually:

cd editor-gui
npm install
npm run tauri dev

The application will launch in a native window, wrapping the React dev server running on http://localhost:1420.