--- title: Ollama for JavaScript Developers | daily.dev description: A practical guide for JavaScript developers on integrating Ollama — a local LLM runtime — into Node.js applications without any external API dependencies.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ollama-for-javascript-developers-m7eti7jpi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ollama for JavaScript Developers | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide for JavaScript developers on integrating Ollama — a local LLM runtime — into Node.js applications without any external API dependencies.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ollama-for-javascript-developers-m7eti7jpi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/M7EtI7jpI.png og:image:alt: Ollama for JavaScript Developers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ollama for JavaScript Developers **[SitePoint](https://daily.dev/sources/sitepoint)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide for JavaScript developers on integrating Ollama — a local LLM runtime — into Node.js applications without any external API dependencies. Covers installing Ollama and pulling models like Llama 3.2 3B, understanding the REST API endpoints, building a non-streaming and streaming chat app using native fetch, maintaining multi-turn conversation history with a CLI interface, and creating a VS Code extension that streams responses to an Output Channel. Also includes model selection guidance (Llama 3.2, Mistral 7B, Phi-3 Mini, Code Llama), performance tuning via num_ctx and keep_alive, and common troubleshooting tips for connection errors, slow first responses, and streaming parse issues. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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