Express is the most widely used Node.js web framework — minimal, flexible, and with a massive ecosystem of middleware. Building an Ollama API with Express gives you a lightweight HTTP layer that any client can consume: a web frontend, a mobile app, a CLI tool, or another service. This guide walks through a production-ready Express … Read more
Tauri is a framework for building desktop applications using web technologies for the UI and Rust for the backend. Compared to Electron, Tauri apps are dramatically smaller — a Tauri app ships a few megabytes rather than a hundred megabytes, because it uses the operating system’s built-in WebView rather than bundling a full Chromium browser. … Read more
Svelte is a modern JavaScript framework that compiles components to highly efficient vanilla JavaScript — no virtual DOM, no runtime overhead, and significantly smaller bundle sizes than React or Vue. If you are building a frontend that connects to a local Ollama backend, Svelte gives you a fast, lightweight interface that streams AI responses smoothly … Read more
Streamlit is the fastest way to build interactive Python web applications. It turns Python scripts into shareable web apps with a single command, making it ideal for data scientists and ML engineers who want to build demos, tools, and dashboards without learning web development. Paired with Ollama, Streamlit gives you a polished local AI application … Read more
Flask is Python’s most popular micro web framework — minimal, flexible, and ideal for building APIs and small web applications quickly. Pairing it with Ollama gives you a self-hosted AI backend that you can expose to a web frontend, another service, or a mobile app. This guide walks through building a production-ready Flask API around … Read more
Puppeteer is Google’s Node.js library for controlling a headless Chrome browser. Paired with Ollama, it gives you a powerful combination for automating web tasks that require intelligence: scraping content that needs JavaScript execution, extracting structured data from dynamic pages, automating form submissions with AI-generated content, and building screenshot-based visual analysis pipelines. This guide covers the … Read more
Puppeteer is Google’s Node.js library for controlling a headless Chrome browser. Paired with Ollama, it gives you a powerful combination for automating web tasks that require intelligence: scraping content that needs JavaScript execution, extracting structured data from dynamic pages, automating form submissions with AI-generated content, and building screenshot-based visual analysis pipelines. This guide covers the … Read more
WhatsApp is one of the world’s most widely used messaging platforms, and building a bot that connects it to a local LLM opens up practical use cases: a personal AI assistant you can query from your phone, a customer support bot for a small business, a family knowledge base you can ask questions to, or … Read more
Excel spreadsheets are the universal format for business data, and adding local LLM analysis to your Excel workflows means you can summarise reports, classify data, generate insights, and answer questions about spreadsheet content — all without sending your data to a cloud API. This guide covers using Python with pandas, openpyxl, and Ollama to analyse … Read more
Playwright is Microsoft’s modern browser automation library — fast, reliable, and capable of controlling Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit from Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript. Paired with Ollama, it gives you a powerful combination: Playwright handles the browser automation and data collection, while Ollama handles the intelligent analysis, summarisation, and classification of the collected content. This guide … Read more
