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AI enhanced e-commerce application

WithLove is a sample e-commerce application that show how AI can be integrated into a web application. It includes a curated gift shop with hybrid search (full-text + vector), and an AI-powered chat shopping assistant.

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This project was generously donated by one of our fabulous Temporal community members! We encourage you to check it out, but urge caution as Temporal does not formally support or endorse this project.

The sample also uses OpenAI models for inference and embedding generation. The application uses Temporal for durable, long-lived operations such on customer onboarding, order processing, and chat assistant sessions.

Key Features

  • Hybrid Search — Full-text search (SQL Server FTS) combined with vector similarity (OpenAI embeddings), merged via Reciprocal Rank Fusion
  • Chat Assistant (LA) — Temporal-backed conversational shopping assistant using Microsoft.Extensions.AI with tool calling for product search, cart management, and recommendations
  • Stripe Web elements — Server-side Checkout Sessions with the Payment and Address elements integrated
  • FusionCache + Redis — Multi-layer caching with tag-based invalidation and Redis backplane for cross-instance sync
  • Temporal Workflows — Durable database setup, Stripe order processing, customer onboarding, and long-lived chat sessions

Language

.NET
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About the Author

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Cecil Phillip

Staff Developer Advocate

Temporal