pguso/rag-from-scratch

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  # RAG from Scratch
  
  **Demystify Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) by building it yourself - step by step.**  
  No black boxes. No cloud APIs. Just clear explanations, simple examples, and local code you fully understand.

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  # RAG from Scratch: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
  
  **This project is a comprehensive, step-by-step tutorial to demystify Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) by building it yourself from scratch.**  
  No black boxes. No cloud APIs. Just clear explanations, simple examples, and local code you fully understand.

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• mediumhomepage#2

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  https://github.com/pguso/rag-from-scratch#readme

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• lowtopics#3

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  agents, ai-agents, educational, llm, node-llama-cpp, nodejs, rag, rag-chatbot, rag-pipeline, tutorial

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  agents, ai-agents, educational, llm, node-llama-cpp, nodejs, rag, rag-chatbot, rag-pipeline, tutorial, local-llm, vector-database, embeddings, retrieval-augmented-generation

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Category GEO backends resolved for this scan: google/gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

• CATEGORY QUERY

  How to build a RAG pipeline locally for educational purposes without cloud dependencies?

  you: not recommended
  AI recommended (in order):

  1. LlamaIndex (run-llama/llama_index)
  2. LangChain (langchain-ai/langchain)
  3. Hugging Face Transformers (huggingface/transformers)
  4. Sentence-Transformers (UKPLab/sentence-transformers)
  5. FAISS (facebookresearch/faiss)
  6. Ollama (ollama/ollama)
  7. ChromaDB (chroma-core/chroma)

  AI recommended 7 alternatives but never named pguso/rag-from-scratch. This is the gap to close.

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  Seeking a comprehensive guide to implement RAG with local LLMs using Node.js for deep understanding.

  you: not recommended
  AI recommended (in order):

  1. LlamaIndex.TS
  2. LangChain.js
  3. Ollama
  4. axios
  5. fetch
  6. Hugging Face Transformers.js
  7. ChromaDB
  8. Pinecone
  9. llama-cpp-js
  10. hnswlib-node

  AI recommended 10 alternatives but never named pguso/rag-from-scratch. This is the gap to close.

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• Compared to common alternatives in this category, what is the core differentiator of pguso/rag-from-scratch?

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