02. The Essentials of LangChain - Hello World Chain¶
Overview¶
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Lessons: 12
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Folder:
02-the-essentials-of-langchain-hello-world-chain
Lesson Map¶
- What is LangChain?
- What are we building? LangChain Hello World Chain
- Project Setup
- LangChain Fundamentals: Prompt Templates, ChatModels, and Chains
- Building a LangChain Chain to Summarize Text
- Debugging and Tracing Our LangChain Chain
- Using Local Open-Weights Models with LangChain and Ollama
- Integrating LangSmith for LangChain Application Tracing
- LangChain LCEL Fundamentals Quiz
- LangChain Model Switching: Groq API Integration
- LangChain Version in Course V1
- Which LLM to Use? (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Mistral, Llama)
Usage¶
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