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LobeHub Project Overview

The directory listings below are a curated map of key locations, not an exhaustive tree. packages/, src/store/, route groups etc. grow over time — run ls against the real directory for the current set.

Project Description

Open-source, modern-design AI Agent Workspace: LobeHub (previously LobeChat). This repo is the open-source root (github.com/lobehub/lobehub, package @lobehub/lobehub).

Supported platforms:

• Web desktop/mobile
• Desktop (Electron) — apps/desktop
• Mobile app (React Native) — separate repo, already launched (not in this monorepo)

Logo emoji: 🤯

Complete Tech Stack

Category	Technology
Framework	Next.js 16 + React 19
Routing	SPA inside Next.js with react-router-dom
Language	TypeScript
UI Components	@lobehub/ui
CSS-in-JS	@lobehub/ui createStaticStyles
Icons	lucide-react, @ant-design/icons
i18n	react-i18next
State	zustand
URL Params	nuqs
Data Fetching	SWR
React Hooks	aHooks
Date/Time	dayjs
Utilities	es-toolkit
API	TRPC (type-safe)
Database	Neon PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM
Testing	Vitest

Exact versions live in the root package.json — check there, not here.

Monorepo Layout

Flat layout — apps/, packages/, and src/ all sit at the repo root. No git submodules.

(repo root)
├── apps/
│   ├── cli/                  # LobeHub CLI
│   ├── desktop/              # Electron desktop app
│   └── server/               # Next.js-backed server (`@/server/*` alias)
│       └── src/
│           ├── router-hono/  # Hono endpoint routers and standalone runtime
│           └── ...           # featureFlags, globalConfig, modules, routers, services, utils, workflows
├── docs/                     # changelog, development, self-hosting, usage
├── locales/                  # en-US, zh-CN, ...
├── packages/                 # ~80 @lobechat/* workspace packages — `ls` for the full set. Key ones:
│   ├── agent-runtime/        # Agent runtime core
│   ├── agent-signal/         # Agent Signal pipeline
│   ├── agent-tracing/        # Tracing / snapshots
│   ├── builtin-tool-*/       # Per-tool packages (calculator, web-browsing, claude-code, ...)
│   ├── builtin-tools/        # Central registries that compose builtin-tool-*
│   ├── context-engine/
│   ├── database/             # src/{models,schemas,repositories}
│   ├── model-bank/           # Model definitions & provider cards
│   ├── model-runtime/        # src/{core,providers}
│   ├── locales/              # i18n source of truth: packages/locales/src/default/
│   ├── env/                  # env schemas (@/envs/* → packages/env/src/*)
│   ├── app-config/
│   ├── business/             # Open-source stubs (config, const, model-bank, model-runtime) — overridden by cloud
│   ├── types/
│   └── utils/
└── src/
    ├── app/
    │   ├── (backend)/        # api, f, market, middleware, oidc, trpc, webapi
    │   ├── spa/              # SPA HTML template service
    │   └── spa-auth/         # Auth HTML shell (SSR)
    ├── routes/               # SPA page segments (thin — delegate to features/)
    │   └── (main)/ (mobile)/ (desktop)/ (popup)/ auth/ onboarding/ share/
    ├── spa/                  # SPA entries + router config
    │   ├── entry.{web,mobile,desktop,popup}.tsx
    │   └── router/
    ├── business/             # Open-source stubs (client/server) — cloud repo provides real impls
    ├── features/             # Domain business components
    ├── store/                # ~30 zustand stores — `ls` for the full set
    └── ...                   # components, hooks, layout, libs, services, types, utils

Architecture Map

Layer	Location
UI Components	src/components, src/features
SPA Pages	src/routes/
React Router	src/spa/router/
Global Providers	src/layout
Zustand Stores	src/store
Client Services	src/services/
REST API	src/app/(backend)/webapi
tRPC Routers	apps/server/src/routers/{async|lambda|mobile|tools}
Server Services	apps/server/src/services (can access DB)
Server Modules	apps/server/src/modules (no DB access)
Feature Flags	apps/server/src/featureFlags
Global Config	apps/server/src/globalConfig
DB Schema	packages/database/src/schemas
DB Model	packages/database/src/models
DB Repository	packages/database/src/repositories
Third-party	src/libs (analytics, oidc, etc.)
Builtin Tools	packages/builtin-tool-*, packages/builtin-tools
Open-source stub	src/business/*, packages/business/* (this repo)

Data Flow

React UI → Store Actions → Client Service → TRPC Lambda → Server Services → DB Model → PostgreSQL

Note: Relationship to the Cloud Repo

This open-source repo is consumed by a separate, private cloud (SaaS) repo as a git submodule mounted at lobehub/. The cloud repo provides:

• src/business/{client,server} and packages/business/* implementations that override the stubs shipped here.
• Cloud-only routes (e.g. (cloud)/, embed/), cloud-only stores (e.g. subscription/), cloud-only TRPC routers (billing, budget, risk control, …), and Vercel cron routes under src/app/(backend)/cron/.
• File-resolution order in cloud: @/store/x → cloud src/store/x first, then lobehub/packages/store/src/x, then lobehub/src/store/x. Cloud override wins.

When working in this repo alone, ignore the cloud layer — the stubs in src/business/ and packages/business/ are the source of truth here.