Introduction

Novel is a Notion-style WYSIWYG editor with AI-powered autocompletions.

Here's a quick 30-second demo:

https://github.com/steven-tey/novel/assets/28986134/2099877f-4f2b-4b1c-8782-5d803d63be5c

Deploy Your Own

You can deploy your own version of Novel to Vercel with one click:

Setting Up Locally

To set up Novel locally, you'll need to clone the repository and set up the following environment variables:

• OPENAI_API_KEY – your OpenAI API key (you can get one here)
• BLOB_READ_WRITE_TOKEN – your Vercel Blob read/write token (currently still in beta, but feel free to sign up on this form for access)

If you've deployed this to Vercel, you can also use vc env pull to pull the environment variables from your Vercel project.

Tech Stack

Novel is built on the following stack:

• Next.js – framework
• Tiptap – text editor
• OpenAI - AI completions
• Vercel AI SDK – AI library
• Vercel – deployments
• TailwindCSS – styles
• Cal Sans – font

Contributing

Here's how you can contribute:

• Open an issue if you believe you've encountered a bug.
• Make a pull request to add new features/make quality-of-life improvements/fix bugs.

Author

• Steven Tey (@steventey)

License

Licensed under the MIT license.