Question - does copilot-sdk support browser based applications

[Tommertom]

Hi

I haven't tried it yet, but in order to create other UIs I would like to incorporate the copilot-sdk in a browser app, such as angular or so, and then have it connect to the copilot server using http(s). Does the current sdk support this via the client.ts code? I would suspect not, given its dependencies on nodejs packages for the stdio based connections?

If we have a browser based sdk as well, it would surely create an even more cleaner client-server package, would get rid of the need of having a separate express (or similar) based layer for client-server interaction (which only funnels the requests as a proxy).

Thx

[github-actions]

Hi @Tommertom! Thanks for opening this issue.

You're correct that the current SDK is designed for Node.js server-side use with stdio-based connections and doesn't natively support browser environments. The SDK currently relies on Node.js-specific packages for process communication.

For browser-based applications, you would indeed need a server-side proxy layer (Express or similar) to handle the communication between the browser client and the Copilot SDK backend.

A browser-compatible SDK would be a valuable enhancement. I've labeled this as a question for now, but the team can evaluate whether this could be considered as a feature enhancement for the roadmap.

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