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A JavaScript interface for chroma with embedding functions as bundled dependencies
Chroma is the open-source embedding database. Chroma makes it easy to build LLM apps by making knowledge, facts, and skills pluggable for LLMs.
This package includes all embedding libraries as bundled dependencies, providing a simple installation experience without worrying about dependency management. For a thin client, install chromadb-client
# npm
npm install chromadb
# pnpm
pnpm add chromadb
# yarn
yarn add chromadb
Chroma needs to be running in order for this client to talk to it. Please see the Usage Guide to learn how to quickly stand this up.
import { ChromaClient } from "chromadb";
// Initialize the client
const chroma = new ChromaClient({ path: "http://localhost:8000" });
// Create a collection
const collection = await chroma.createCollection({ name: "my-collection" });
// Add documents to the collection
await collection.add({
ids: ["id1", "id2"],
embeddings: [
[1.1, 2.3, 3.2],
[4.5, 6.9, 4.4],
],
metadatas: [{ source: "doc1" }, { source: "doc2" }],
documents: ["Document 1 content", "Document 2 content"],
});
// Query the collection
const results = await collection.query({
queryEmbeddings: [1.1, 2.3, 3.2],
nResults: 2,
});
This package includes all embedding libraries as bundled dependencies, so you can use them directly:
import { ChromaClient, OpenAIEmbeddingFunction } from "chromadb";
const embedder = new OpenAIEmbeddingFunction({
openai_api_key: "your-api-key",
model_name: "text-embedding-ada-002",
});
const chroma = new ChromaClient({ path: "http://localhost:8000" });
const collection = await chroma.createCollection({
name: "my-collection",
embeddingFunction: embedder,
});
// Now you can add documents without providing embeddings
await collection.add({
ids: ["id1"],
documents: ["Document content"],
});
// And query with text
const results = await collection.query({
queryTexts: ["similar document"],
nResults: 2,
});
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A JavaScript interface for chroma with embedding functions as bundled dependencies
The npm package chromadb receives a total of 48,553 weekly downloads. As such, chromadb popularity was classified as popular.
We found that chromadb demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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