LangChain Quickstart, For Apple M1/M2 Machines.

I had trouble getting higher Python versions (>=3.12.1) built, and once I did I had issues getting the latest from LangChain (0.1.0) to work on my M2 Macbook Pro, so I thought I'd share my solution. I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it works for me.

See the Help Guide for a full walkthrough of setting up your environment on an M1/M2 machine.

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The following is the original README.md from LangChain

my-app

Installation

Install the LangChain CLI if you haven't yet

pip install -U langchain-cli

Adding packages

# adding packages from
# https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/tree/master/templates
langchain app add $PROJECT_NAME

# adding custom GitHub repo packages
langchain app add --repo $OWNER/$REPO
# or with whole git string (supports other git providers):
# langchain app add git+https://github.com/hwchase17/chain-of-verification

# with a custom api mount point (defaults to `/{package_name}`)
langchain app add $PROJECT_NAME --api_path=/my/custom/path/rag

Note: you remove packages by their api path

langchain app remove my/custom/path/rag

Setup LangSmith (Optional)

LangSmith will help us trace, monitor and debug LangChain applications. LangSmith is currently in private beta, you can sign up here. If you don't have access, you can skip this section

export LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2=true
export LANGCHAIN_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
export LANGCHAIN_PROJECT=<your-project>  # if not specified, defaults to "default"

Launch LangServe

langchain serve

Running in Docker

This project folder includes a Dockerfile that allows you to easily build and host your LangServe app.

Building the Image

To build the image, you simply:

docker build . -t my-langserve-app

If you tag your image with something other than my-langserve-app, note it for use in the next step.

Running the Image Locally

To run the image, you'll need to include any environment variables necessary for your application.

In the below example, we inject the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable with the value set in my local environment ($OPENAI_API_KEY)

We also expose port 8080 with the -p 8080:8080 option.

docker run -e OPENAI_API_KEY=$OPENAI_API_KEY -p 8080:8080 my-langserve-app