# Flowise AI | Build LLM Apps Easily

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# Flowise - Build LLM Apps Easily

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English | [中文](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/i18n/README-ZH.md) | [日本語](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/i18n/README-JA.md) | [한국어](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/i18n/README-KR.md)

### Drag & drop UI to build your customized LLM flow

[![](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/raw/main/images/flowise.gif?raw=true)](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise)

## ⚡Quick Start

Download and Install [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/download) \>= 18.15.0

1. Install Flowise

npm install -g flowise

1. Start Flowise

npx flowise start

With username & password

npx flowise start --FLOWISE\_USERNAME=user --FLOWISE\_PASSWORD=1234

1. Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000/)

## 🐳 Docker

### Docker Compose

1. Go to `docker` folder at the root of the project
2. Copy `.env.example` file, paste it into the same location, and rename to `.env`
3. `docker compose up -d`
4. Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000/)
5. You can bring the containers down by `docker compose stop`

### Docker Image

1. Build the image locally:

docker build --no-cache -t flowise .

1. Run image:

docker run -d --name flowise -p 3000:3000 flowise

1. Stop image:

docker stop flowise

## 👨‍💻 Developers

Flowise has 3 different modules in a single mono repository.

- `server`: Node backend to serve API logics
- `ui`: React frontend
- `components`: Third-party nodes integrations
- `api-documentation`: Auto-generated swagger-ui API docs from express

### Prerequisite

- Install [PNPM](https://pnpm.io/installation)

npm i -g pnpm

### Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone [https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise.git](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise.git)

1. Go into repository folder

cd Flowise

1. Install all dependencies of all modules:

pnpm install

1. Build all the code:

pnpm build

Exit code 134 (JavaScript heap out of memory)

```auto

```

1. Start the app:

pnpm start

You can now access the app on [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000/)  
6. For development build:

- Create `.env` file and specify the `VITE_PORT` (refer to `.env.example`) in `packages/ui`
- Create `.env` file and specify the `PORT` (refer to `.env.example`) in `packages/server`
- Run

pnpm devAny code changes will reload the app automatically on [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080/)

## 🔒 Authentication

To enable app level authentication, add `FLOWISE_USERNAME` and `FLOWISE_PASSWORD` to the `.env` file in `packages/server`:

```auto
FLOWISE_USERNAME=user
FLOWISE_PASSWORD=1234

```

## 🌱 Env Variables

Flowise support different environment variables to configure your instance. You can specify the following variables in the `.env` file inside `packages/server` folder. Read [more](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#-env-variables)

## 📖 Documentation

[Flowise Docs](https://docs.flowiseai.com/)

## 🌐 Self Host

Deploy Flowise self-hosted in your existing infrastructure, we support various [deployments](https://docs.flowiseai.com/configuration/deployment)

- [AWS](https://docs.flowiseai.com/deployment/aws)
- [Azure](https://docs.flowiseai.com/deployment/azure)
- [Digital Ocean](https://docs.flowiseai.com/deployment/digital-ocean)
- [GCP](https://docs.flowiseai.com/deployment/gcp)
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## ☁ Flowise Cloud

[Get Started with Flowise Cloud](https://flowiseai.com/)

## 📄 License

Source code in this repository is made available under the [Apache License Version 2.0](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/LICENSE.md).

## GitHub:

[https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise)